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Barbie · 2023 — Chapter 15 of 26 · 2'45" · B1

Sasha and Her Mom Pick Up Barbie, Explained: come off it

A woman and her daughter find a life-size Barbie in their car, and the mom confesses the truth behind the drawings: "I’m just a boring mom with a boring job and a daughter who hates me." She wanted a little fun, and Barbie's deadpan face and cellulite turn out to be her own creations.

What happens

Barbie is picked up by Sasha and her mother, who are stunned to find a live doll in the car. The mother admits she is a bored woman who wanted some fun, and the two realize her sad drawings were what changed Barbie's world. Later she vents that everybody hates women, and Sasha argues back while they drive.

Parents & kidsArgumentsComplainingConfrontingParent & childB1fastamericanClean
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come off itshotgunwide awakeshining

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Phrase of the scene

come off it

得了吧；别装/别来这套

母亲对萨莎说想帮助女性，女儿不信这套说辞，当场用这句话反驳，并说出更刺耳的判断。

Come off it, you didn't forget, you just didn't want to come.

Also in this scene

  • shotgun

    the front passenger seat

  • wide awake

    fully awake and alert

  • shining

    glowing; also mind-reading, as in The Shining

Everything marked in this scene

23 notes across 51 lines

Phrase · B2form a planLet’s form a plan here.
Phrase · C1have shotgunI would normally have shotgun. I’ll go in the first one.
Phrase · A2hang onHang on.
SoundHang on

liaison

Hang on.
Phrase · B1like an ideaHow are you here? You’re like an idea.
Grammar · B1used to play with

used to

And I found those Barbies we used to play with--
Phrase · B1give something awayI thought we gave those away. - Well, I started playing with them.
Phrase · B1end up doing somethingand maybe because I couldn’t be like you, I ended up making you like me.
Grammar · B2I ended up making you like me

end up doing

and maybe because I couldn’t be like you, I ended up making you like me.
Phrase · B1by chanceDid any of these drawings by chance have thoughts of death and cellulite?
Soundby chance

liaison

Did any of these drawings by chance have thoughts of death and cellulite?
Phrase · B1come for someone- I came for you! - You came for me!
Soundcame for you

elision

- I came for you! - You came for me!
Phrase · B2where to startI don’t even know where to start with this wishing-a-Barbie-to-life crap.
Phrase · B1blame someone for somethingCan you blame me for wanting to have a little fun?
Grammar · B2wanting to have a little fun

gerund after preposition

Can you blame me for wanting to have a little fun?
Slang · C1chuckleheadsI gotta lose these chuckleheads.
Phrase · A2owe someone an apologyI think I owe you ladies an apology.
Phrase · B1messed upI thought that Barbie had made the Real World better, but the Real World is forever and irrevocably messed up!
Grammar · B2had made the Real World better

past perfect

I thought that Barbie had made the Real World better, but the Real World is forever and irrevocably messed up!
Phrase · C1come off itOh, come off it, everybody hates women.
Phrase · B2a strong wordHate is a strong word. - Wake up, Mom!
Phrase · B1wide awake

fully awake and alert

Sasha tells her mom to wake up, and her mom insists she is fully aware.

I am wide awake, Sasha! - [gasps]

Sasha and Her Mom Pick Up Barbie, explained

What's really going on

The scene quietly hands the film's meaning to an ordinary woman. The mom is not a villain but someone worn down by a flat life, and her confession — "I’m just a boring mom with a boring job and a daughter who hates me." — explains why Barbie's world turned strange: the drawings came from her. Her later outburst, "Oh, come off it, everybody hates women.", is not a thesis the film endorses but the sound of exhaustion, and Sasha pushes back on it at once. What the film is really showing is that a mother and a daughter can love each other and still fail to understand each other, and that the woman who reinvents Barbie is also the one who needs to be seen. The car chase is comic, but the ache underneath is real.

Theme

ParenthoodA tired mother and her sharp daughter clash and reconnect, revealing love buried under frustration.
IdentityThe woman who made Barbie strange is herself searching for a self she has lost.

Listen for

  • Hang on — liaison
  • by chance — liaison
  • came for you — elision
How are you here? You’re like an idea.

The question of the scene: Barbie has stepped out of the world of ideas and into the real one, which should be impossible.

I’m just a boring mom with a boring job and a daughter who hates me.

The mother's self-description, delivered as both self-pity and an explanation for why she reached for a little joy.

I thought that Barbie had made the Real World better, but the Real World is forever and irrevocably messed up!

Barbie's disillusioned conclusion: the belief that she improved the world has collapsed, and she says so bluntly.

Oh, come off it, everybody hates women.

An outburst of exhaustion rather than a considered claim, and the film's own characters immediately push back on it.

It’s the one thing we can all agree on.

A bitter punchline about a society that rarely agrees on anything except, as she claims, this.

Questions about this scene

Why does Barbie's world go wrong?

Because of the mother's drawings. As she admits, when she felt sad and weird, the drawings did too, and that is where the thoughts of death and cellulite came from.

What does the mother mean by "a boring mom"?

She is describing herself as an ordinary woman with a dull life who wanted a little fun. It is self-mocking but also an honest cry of loneliness.

Does the film believe that everybody hates women?

No. The line is spoken in frustration and immediately challenged, so it reads as the character's bitterness rather than the film's message.

Why is the mother driving so fast?

Mattel's people are chasing them, so she speeds up to shake them off. Her earlier confession about wanting a little fun makes the reckless driving feel very much in character.

How do the mother and daughter get along?

They snipe at each other constantly, yet they are driving together and clearly connected, and the banter is a working relationship rather than a broken one.

Barbie · 26 chapters

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Up next · Chapter 16dream upBarbie Flees to Barbie Land
Chapter 1burst their bubbleBarbie Rewrites the Doll StoryChapter 2the voice of a generationBarbie's Perfect Day in Barbie LandChapter 3beach offKen Beaches Off and Gets HurtChapter 4dying toBarbie Asks About DyingChapter 5fall into disrepairBarbie's Heels Touch the GroundChapter 6be that as it mayBarbie Opens a Portal to RealityChapter 7a figure of speechBarbie Leaves Barbie LandChapter 8hold it against meBarbie and Ken Hit the Real WorldChapter 9man upThe Mattel Men Celebrate ThemselvesChapter 10with all due respectMattel Panics Over Barbie in LAChapter 11the last resortSasha Confronts BarbieChapter 12seek my fortuneKen Tries to Bring Patriarchy HomeChapter 13up the wazooMattel Execs Try to Box BarbieChapter 14Isn't that marvelousBarbie Meets Ruth at MattelWatching · Chapter 15come off itSasha and Her Mom Pick Up BarbieChapter 16dream upBarbie Flees to Barbie LandChapter 17fly off the shelvesBarbie Finds Ken's Casa HouseChapter 18snap out of itKen Takes Over Barbie LandChapter 19make a run for itBarbie Hits Her Lowest PointChapter 20existential crisisIt's Impossible to Be a WomanChapter 21tie herself into knotsGloria's Monologue About WomenChapter 22the old standbyThe Barbies Plot Their ReturnChapter 23take advantage ofThe Kens Build a PatriarchyChapter 24took you for grantedBarbie Apologizes to KenChapter 25hold on toBarbie Tells Ken to Find HimselfChapter 26living in the shadowsBarbie Says Maybe She's Not Barbie
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