I thought Barbie was a great movie. In a seaside resort lives a fractured family; a mentally challenged father with two daughters and his morally bankrupt brother. The youngest daughter is sickly, spoiled and dreams of going to America, the oldest does her duty taking care of most of the day-to-day chores associated with running a humble beach resort, more like a beach motel really. The uncle of the girls has brokered a deal of some sort with an American businessman and his daughter. This begins a conflict between the two sisters as it is revealed that the oldest will leave Korea for the States.
(I don't want to share to many details as that would give the movie away, and I hate spoilers.)
At first I thought I had the movie figured out...turned out the motives of American were different but equally appalling. It's a drama with thriller elements but mostly you hang in there to see what is truly going to happen...I was rooting for the relationship between the two girls (the eldest sister Soon-Young and Barbie) but I was relieved that it ended the way it did...and that makes me sad and makes me question my own moral compass.
Watch it then tell me who you rooted for...
(I don't want to share to many details as that would give the movie away, and I hate spoilers.)
At first I thought I had the movie figured out...turned out the motives of American were different but equally appalling. It's a drama with thriller elements but mostly you hang in there to see what is truly going to happen...I was rooting for the relationship between the two girls (the eldest sister Soon-Young and Barbie) but I was relieved that it ended the way it did...and that makes me sad and makes me question my own moral compass.
Watch it then tell me who you rooted for...