Rewatching Peaceful Property as I'm wont to do, and I realized today that during this scene in episode three:
Pangpang starts reciting a part of the Barbie movie monologue given by America Ferrera's character, which starts off "It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough," before going onto a list of contradictory standards 'you have to' meet as a woman in contemporary life.
But Pangpang gets interrupted by the landlady:
Which, to my reading at least, is such a clever burn against feminism without any kind of capitalist critique.
And of course, this scene occurs right after Pangpang's reviewing a pink plastic ghost radar—remind you of any Mattel toy branding?
"Zero Pangs: It doesn't work at all."
You don't have to read into the references and symbolism in this show to enjoy it, but you'll be missing out on half the fun.












