The Barbie Movie presently has over 1.3 billion dollars in ticket sales, which is now online in movie theaters. Next month, a digitized version will be available on the internet with captioning assisting Satan in getting his message across the world. Three Barbie dolls are sold per second, and it is expected that with the success of the Barbie movie, those sales will significantly increase throughout this decade. Is the Barbie movie Designed to Deceive Us?
How can I make this bold statement regarding Satan’s influence on this movie, as being true? The Savior gives us the necessary and sufficient test: “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:20) Let us study the fruits of those involved, so that we may know if this statement is true or not. Those fruits will tell the story. In a general sense, my goal in life is to bring people to Christ and to expose Satan’s deceitful ways; ways that take people away from the Christ.
Also, in general, the movie industry in part contributes to those deceitful ways. I have spent a lot of time researching Barbie’s origin and this movie because of the enormous effect the Barbie movie is having across the globe. As you will see, my research has led me to different conclusions than most. Clearly, a person’s religious paradigm affects their view of the movie.
Creation of Barbie and the Movie
In 1945, Ruth Handler and her husband, Elliot, were involved in setting up Mattel. Ruth is credited with inventing Barbie—sharing Barbie with the world on March 9th, 1959. But actually, she borrowed the idea from a German doll, Bild Lilli. In a recent YouTube video, Jonathan Cahn shares the dangers of the new Barbie movie claiming it is the “Most widely anti-man movie ever made.”
Jonathan Cahn shows how Bild Lilli evolved from a Mesopotamian sex goddess, Ishtar. Satan has an advantage over us in that he can tie things together over the ages to cleverly deceive us. A better understanding of history helps us expose Satan’s deceitful ways. Jonathan’s insights are very useful. I highly recommend you listen to his 26-minute ex·po·sé; the link is below.
In 1974, Elliot and Ruth Handler were banished from the company they had founded because an investigation found Mattel guilty of issuing false and misleading financial reports. We have integrity issues here.
Barbie has been the most successful toy Mattel has ever sold. Today, three Barbie dolls are sold per second, and sales are expected to increase significantly in the remainder of this decade because of the great success of the Barbie movie. The reviews show that the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) community is happy with the Barbie movie.
Mattel, of course, continues to profit from Barbie’s multi-distinguished professions that they have made over the years: astronaut, surgeon, Olympic athlete, downhill skier, aerobics instructor, TV news reporter, vet, rock star, doctor, army officer, air force pilot, summit diplomat, rap musician, presidential candidate, baseball player, scuba diver, lifeguard, fire-fighter, engineer, dentist, and many more. These are the models set before our girls. Being a happy wife and a happy mother are never part of the picture painted.
The Barbie Movie
Greta Gerwig wrote the script for the movie with Noah Baumbach—her live-in boyfriend, who is 14 years older. Their second son was born this year. Gerwig also directed the movie. Barbie is the most financially successful female-directed movie ever made.
Born in 1983 in Sacramento, CA, Gerwig is close to her family and was raised a Unitarian Universalist, which is a liberal religious movement. They believe in a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. They have no creed, They are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth. They use no sacred texts like the Bible. They have a deep regard for intellectual freedom and inclusive love. Their congregations include atheists, agnostics, deists, and theists.
Gerwig is a gifted playwright and actress and has received many prestigious awards. She was the main actress in Baumbach’s film, Mistress America, and closed with the line, “Being a beacon of hope for lesser people is a lonely business.”
Gerwig was included in the annual Times 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2018. Now, with the movie Barbie, she would likely be listed near the top.
Baumbach was raised in Brooklyn with a Jewish father and a Protestant mother. His parents divorced while Noah was an adolescent. He became a very successful playwright garnishing many awards. He married Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2005. In 2007 Baumbach wrote and directed the 2007 dramedy Margot at the Wedding, starring his wife. They had a son in 2010 and Jennifer divorced him the same year.
Both Gerwig and Baumbach credit Woody Allen, the comedian, as having the most influence on their careers. Woody Allen is considered a comedian genius.
Gerwig and Baumbach’s backgrounds and Hollywood lifestyles are clearly reflected in the movie Barbie. There are those who would have Barbie and Ken in their innocence like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I am guessing that thought never entered Greta and Noah’s minds. Biblical ethics are not part of their paradigm, but how to reach and entertain the minds of the masses. Clearly, they have been extremely successful in doing just that.
Margot Robbie’s Role as Barbie
As Margot Robbie plays the part of Barbie, she loves to show off her beautiful figure. She declares that every night is a girl’s night. Yet, she shares—playing the part of the Barbie doll—that she and Ken have no genitals. They are not needed to have fun she implies. She waves at everyone as she drives around in her pink car.
Ruth Handler died in 2002 and is portrayed in the movie as a spirit talking to Barbie. Interestingly, Ruth’s daughter, Barbara Handler, plays the part of her mother in the movie, as Ruth’s spirit talks to Barbie. They hold hands as she helps Barbie become a human, at the end of the movie. Barbie then takes the name of Barbara Handler. Next, she says, “I want to see a gynecologist.” Why? Is this just fun Woody Allen-like humor?
A positive note is that Barbie is successful in bringing a mother and daughter back together, and a nuclear family is implied, which is great in spite of everything else in the movie to the contrary. Or is this part of a disinformation satanic strategy, covering up the pink poison, as I discuss later?
Barbie’s height (11 ½ inches) is 1/6th of her sexy human look-alike height. Her petite feminine dimensions that today’s girls view to model as they grow up are such that they would not have enough body fat to menstruate. Hence, to model themselves like Barbie means they could not be a mother. Another subtle satanic deception. In years gone by, girls became anorexic trying to mimic Barbie’s figure. Now, with the obesity epidemic because of the American diet disaster, the body fat problem has essentially disappeared.
I went to the movie because of Jonathan Cahn’s insights. I did not want to go but was also counseled by loved ones that I could not write a blog article about something that I had never seen.
In the middle of the movie, Barbie shares this clever deceitful phrase that gives you an idea about the subtle deceit. It is a key phrase: “…by giving voice to the cognitive dissonance required to be a woman under the patriarchy you robbed it of its power.” As Jonathan Cahn points out, this is not normal communication, but more like what you would find in a radical feminist handbook putting down men.
Disinformation Strategy
Johnathan Cahn’s review of the movie reminds me of the communist’s disinformation strategy. They tell you one thing that sounds good and true, but they deceive you as they do something else to help them move the communist agenda forward. This is a clever satanic trick that has worked for decades against the free world. Given the background of those writing, directing, and producing the movie, I don’t believe they feel they are using a disinformation strategy. Unfortunately, they don’t know the subtleness of Satan and his minions to accomplish their goal of destroying families and moving the feminist movement forward.
Jonathan claims that the movie vilifies and immaculates men—half of the human race. It is sugar-coated pink poison for our children to take them away from the beautifully planned and healthy family relationships designed by the Lord using clever deceitful techniques. As is done in disinformation strategy, there are good messages in the movie to sugarcoat the poison.
In Gerwig’s rendition of the movie, Little Women, she removes the very tender scene where Frederick, at the end of the movie, goes all the way to Jo March’s home to hand her her manuscript of Little Women, and lauding her for the masterpiece that it is. Gerwig replaces that tender and key scene with Jo March’s negotiation with the publisher to get the copyright— sharing her female victory.
New Lies for Old
The disinformation strategy is explained in Anatoly Golitsyn’s book, New Lies for Old, which he wrote back in the 1960s when the Cold War was in full force. He was the most significant KGB defector and tried to wake up the US intelligence. They closed their ears to him.
I had my clearance at the time and talked to one of the security guys who had met him. He said that he found his explanation of how the communists were using disinformation strategy totally credible and successful, but that Golitsyn was being ignored.
Golitsyn wrote another book after the Berlin Wall came down, the collapse of the USSR, and the “so-called” collapse of communism to explain what was really going on, in the book, Perestroika Deception. You have noticed over the years that communism has not collapsed but has subtly come into the American society in different ways to tear down America’s freedom. The global elite are the champions of this totalitarian satanic effort.
Losing Individual Sovereignty
The global elite’s totalitarian movement is designed to take away our individual sovereignty. I am sure they are happy with the Barbie movie. Also, the USSR spent massive amounts of money getting pornography in front of us along with drugs, as effective moral deterioration strategies. Guess what? Unfortunately, these techniques are working in their favor. It is wake up time as Moroni warned in Ether Chapter 8:20-26.
After the wall came down, our son Sterling and his friend Brian and I went to hear Gorbachev speak at the University of Utah on the green movement, after the so-called collapse of communism. This was their follow-up disinformation strategy step. We got front-row seats because Brian was in a wheelchair. At the end of his discourse, Gorbachev got a standing ovation, except for the three of us—knowing that the green movement is part of their disinformation strategy.
Today’s Falsehoods
Today, the green movement has morphed into false environmental issues, such as global warming and monitoring carbon dioxide emissions. Both have been proven to be false hypotheses and are about the global elite moving to take control of the world. And, reducing the world population is one of their main motives. The movie Barbie – “Have No Children”- is Hollywood’s popular presentation of this same paradigm—men are evil creatures and family and happy children are not important. The children in the movie are somber and unhappy, as they destroy their baby dolls.
I wrote a blog article, “Why Satan Hates Women.” The Barbie movie is a clever satanic way of taking women away from their true divine role before God, which role Satan hates. The movie also feeds the Wokeism disease that is plaguing our planet. We need to stand up against Satan’s attack on Biblically ethically moral values. I am so pleased that we have a US presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, who is pro-family, pro what it means to be an American based on our founding US Constitutional principles.
Satan has been at war with the Lord’s work since the War in Heaven. Let us wake up to God’s word and His truth. We are promised that as we treasure up HIs Word, we will not be deceived. (JS-M 37)
A Good Example Movie
It is hard to find a movie portraying the Biblical ethic. The book, The Belove Bridegroom, does a tremendous and inspired job in explaining this ethic. I am privileged to know the author, Donna B. Nielsen. Her book went out of print, and I was privileged to help get it back up. It is a book everyone should read and would enjoy the inspired relevance.
The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity. God’s ideal for marriage is left out of the Barbie movie. Having husband and wife complementing each other and needing each other—being “one flesh,” are the Biblical ideals totally missing from the movie and made fun of. The movie Loving Leah is a really fun Biblically-based movie.
Another contrasting movie to the Barbie movie is The Fighting Preacher. Which is a true and amazing story documenting the 25-year mission of Willard and Rebecca Bean in Palmyra, New York.
They took care of the Joseph Smith home, which the Church had acquired. They were amazing missionaries turning a town that hated them into one that loved them.
Missionaries returning home and traveling through the area often visited the Joseph Smith home.
One of the most touching scenes is where Rebecca shares with the missionaries her experience about being visited by the Savior, as she carries her heavy duties as a mother and a missionary. The Savior gives her the sweet assurance that she will be sustained and have joy in this most important calling.
Gender and Religious Paradigms Affect Views of the Barbie Movie
I know a brilliant lady who is very intuitive, and Christ centered. She loved the movie and had Barbie and Ken in their innocence tied to the Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. A brilliant devout man I know regretted that he ever went to see it. It made him feel worse toward men’s and women’s roles. He would like to erase the Barbie movie from his mind. The Muslim near east countries have banned the Barbie movie. The French sent out an advertisement for the movie that went viral. The general immorality of the French society has brought the meaning of the name Ken in the French language to mean what men want to do to women. Clearly, the immoral world community loves the Barbie movie and go to the movie dressed in pink to show their support. The LGBT community loves it.
The Bible ethic is so beautiful for marriage being “one flesh,” body, mind, and spirit. The Lord commanded Adam and Eve to “multiply and replenish” the earth, while now the global elite would have us destroy life. The joy of husband and wife coming together to create a new life is like a sacred sacrament in the Lord’s perfect plan of happiness. True husband and wife love is unselfish—wanting to bring happiness to the other and to the family. The Barbie movie is contrary to the Biblical ethic.
In general, Satan’s disinformation strategy has moved the movies made by Hollywood to be the opposite to the Biblical ethic, and the movie Barbie is certainly no exception.
My Assessment
Are women justified with how the “patriarchy” has ruled over them over the centuries? Unfortunately, Yes! For the feminist movement to flip the coin all the way over is not the answer. Female and male equality and loving relationships, sharing, building one another up, complementing one another, needing each other to bring the fullness of joy the Lord designed is the Divine goal we should all seek for in a healthy husband and wife union.
They come together in the joy of that union and also with the hope of having children. The world opens the door to sexual freedom and doing everything they can to avoid having children. If conception occurs, then the world’s answer is abort. The Lord’s anger must be kindled greatly over the millions of babies who have been aborted.
As I mentioned, I went to the movie because of Jonathan’s exposing the deceit in the movie. I don’t recommend the movie. Don’t go unless you want to see more clearly what I am exposing of Satan’s subtle deceits. There are some good messages, but that is how Satan sugarcoats the poison. The writers, directors, and producers of the Barbie movie do not know they are using the disinformation strategy, but Satan does in his ever-subtle ways.
For me, mother and teacher are the two most important callings on the planet to bring forth love, light, and truth. The Savior was and is the Master Teacher. Outside of the Lord’s love, there is nothing more powerful in bringing about good than a mother’s love. Her love is next to God’s.
Unbeknownst to them, Hollywood is using the disinformation strategy in the movie Barbie to destroy families, to take away from healthy husband-wife relationships, to promote abortions as being okay, the transsexual agenda, and other distorted sexual behaviors contrary to Biblical ethics. And, it is obvious that the world loves it.
Most modern movies and now with internet streaming services are influenced by this disinformation strategy. Satan is having a ‘hay day,’ as most of them are designed to take people away from Christ. My hope here is to help people wake up to Satan’s subtleness and to assure all that we can “look to God and Live” (Alma 37:47) the abundant life Jesus promised. (John 10:10)
A family that serves one another and others in unselfish-loving ways is the happiest. This primary message is totally missing from the Barbie movie, as this Warner Brothers “fun” entertainment now circles the globe deceiving the masses.
David W. Allan
Link to Jonathan’s 26 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKp-A6BBg-E
Photo: CC Live Action Barbie – Flickr