‘Mormon Land’: Is ‘Barbie’ an allegory of Mother Eve in LDS theology?
The film’s heroine ventures from the Garden of Eden into the “real world,” where she runs smack-dab into patriarchy — a system Latter-day Saint women find in the church’s all-male priesthood.
(Warner Bros. Pictures) Barbie (Margot Robbie, front) drives her pink Corvette out of BarbieLand, with Ken (Ryan Gosling) as a stowaway, in director Greta Gerwig's "Barbie." Some have compared Barbie's journey as echoing the biblical Garden of Eden story.