WARNING: Minor spoilers for “Barbie” ahead.
Barbie is beautiful at any age.
TikTok users are seeing themselves and the incredibly popular “aged” filter in a new light after a scene from the brand-new “Barbie” film released last week.
In the film, Barbie (played by Margot Robbie) is forced to journey to the real world after she begins to “malfunction” by developing cellulite and having thoughts of death while living in the utopian Barbieland.
While sitting on a bench in LA, the doll encounters an elderly woman (played by the film’s costume designer Ann Roth) and the duo engages in a brief but important conversation.
“You’re so beautiful,” Babie comments to the woman.
Roth, 91, then replies, “I know it!”
The exchange left several viewers emotional due to the fact that Barbie — who has no concept of mortality or old age — finds the senior citizen beautiful.
Since viewing the film, several social media users are reconsidering the filter while attempting to keep up the appreciation and confidence of the character.
“Revisiting this filter after seeing Barbie, thinking of the ‘You’re so beautiful’ scene, and realizing this face isn’t so bad after all,” read the in-video text of a video posted by a woman named Savana.
“I have a newfound appreciation for this filter after seeing the Barbie movie,” wrote another user adding that “aging is a privilege.”
A third user said that she wanted to use the filter “right” after explaining that she once reacted to the filter in a negative way.
“After watching that one Barbie scene I remembered my original reaction to this filter and decided I would do it right,” said TikToker Hazel. “She looks beautiful. She looks like she lived and loved. She looks like she bakes everyone cookies.”
In the past, several celebrities — including Kylie Jenner and Hailey Bieber, amongst others — posted videos of their older selves and expressed dismay at how “awful” they looked.
Greta Gerwig, who directed the summer blockbuster, revealed that the tender moment was the “heart of the movie” and that she refused to cut the scene despite the urging of the film’s producers.
“This is the heart of the movie. The way Margot plays that moment is so gentle and so unforced,” Gerwig, 39, told Rolling Stone. “There’s the more outrageous elements in the movie that people say, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe Mattel let you do this,’ or, ‘I can’t believe Warner Bros. let you do this.’ But to me, the part that I can’t believe that is still in the movie is this little cul-de-sac that doesn’t lead anywhere”
“It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere,” continued the “Lady Bird” director.
“And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I don’t know what this movie is about.’”
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