What 'Barbie' Teaches Us About Suffering
An exploration of how essential Buddhist teachings find their way into the feminist blockbuster hit
Jess and I went to go see Barbie this past weekend. It is not a perfect movie but one that is trying to capture the vast feelings of women in a post-modern feminist era could not possibly do so. It’s impossible and in some ways, set up to fail. Greta Gerwig did nothing but the sort, and once again managed to bring a thought-provoking film to the big screen that centers women and our suffering.
Read my full piece on the movie in Tricycle and let me know what you took away from the movie in the comments!
But as always, I leave you with this contemplation:
In which ways can you choose to feel more? In your body? In the world?
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