I felt somewhat passionate about a couple things lately and I want to write a review about them so that you could hear my opinion. I would first like to review a movie. Here goes:
Barbie & The 12 Dancing Princesses
While the animation is decent for a movie that never hit the theater, even though there is sort of an empty feel as it is not rich with characters and people but only shows the main characters, the majority of which look exactly the same only with slight modifications, and the story line is decently intriguing for a little girl, I do not recommend this movie. Unless a parent or individual is very strong in their ability to communicate, hey that’s not right, this movie sends a few very negative messages…especially negative because they are so subtle. No, I am not talking about the way that Barbie’s arms and legs are so ridiculously thin and long, providing an image very few woman could ever accurately emulate, possibly causing anorexia and poor body image for many beautiful, sensitive women longing to find acceptance, approval and love. While that may be an important issue, I feel more concerned with a moral issue. The 12 dancing princesses, while not evil, are very unmanered. Sometimes it is playful, but sometimes it is rude, insensitive and impractical. If you would like to raise a selfish, spoiled brat who feels that they are 100% justified in their behavior, raise your children like the 12 dancing princesses. Of course the princesses don’t act like that…because they are animated…but in the real world being allowed to do what ever you want, having no one correct you when you are knowingly or unknowingly rude, and living a life of playful disorganization is not a recipe for success in life. Enter the villian…who has come to bring order where there has been chaos. And she takes it a step to far, but many of the things she implements are not horrible. But oh, how they are seen that way!!!! And the 12 princesses gossip about how unfair she is. Tacky. Thank you Barbie for showing me how to be a beautiful woman of no character and no accountability. Gee, that’s what I always wanted to be. What really ticks me off is that it is so black and white. Chaos is good. Discipline is bad. Because the villian is so evil, they throw away everything having to do with her, even though in some ways she was right. Bad representation of right, but still right. And even though the princesses were good, they wern’t all good by any means and no one was stepping in to lovingly correct them. Where is the middle ground? Where is playful meets respectful? Where is alive meets self-controlled? So, over all, it isn’t like the most heinus movie ever…but I hate subtlties that can sneek in and distort a world view to something that seems innocent enough but in the long run is really, really harmful. Kids are encouraged left and right to be disrespectful to authority in our society and it is REALLY, REALLY UGLY! It’s not funny or cute.
Product review: Pixie Gel Eyeliner available at Target
Basically in a nut shell this is a gooey eyeliner that is hard to get off of anything it touches and yet smears and smudges on my face with in about 6 hours on my face with no touching or rubbing. So it starts off great but is really hard to get off the brush and then it moves on your face and is really hard to fix because it is so hard to get off, so you have these ugly eyeliner smudges that are really hard to get off. Plus it is $18. Gee, what a great idea!!!! Let’s pay almost $20 for a product that works terribly.