Medium-wide: Barbie & Poor Things—A Convergence of Themes

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people clamored to see Barbie in theaters because it spoke to a plethora of shades of the female experience, which undeniably helped it become one of if not the biggest films in 2023. Obviously, I cannot speak to the film's depiction of the female experience, seeing as I am not a woman. This will go doubly so for our discussion of Poor Things in relation to Barbie and vice versa. Still, even I can say that there is something immediately rousing about both of these films, especially how they approach societal and systemic sexism.