We start at the beginning, the moment of conception. In our world, before there was something, there was nothing and to create our realm of existence, God first cleared aside the emptiness and voidness of non-existence. And then, He created our world. To quote Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, “That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.”
Barbie opens with baby dolls being smashed, destroyed. The role they created for little girls was empty, at heart—forcing them to play-act as mothers before they’d even developed a maternal instinct, training them for a void life of motherhood with no space for any other ambitious goals. With the baby doll-smashing as little girls choose Barbie dolls instead, Gerwig depicted a clearing away of these roles and, in the newly available space, a creation.
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