Tatiana Tuzova, a Russian doll university, felt a strong desire to watch the movie "Barbie," which tells the story of her beloved doll, after collecting more than 12,000 of these dolls. Like the character Barbie in the film, played by actress Margot Robbie, Tuzova lives in a fantasy world of beautiful dolls and another real-world that is less than ideal. Between these two worlds, Tuzova prefers the fantasy world depicted in the film called "Barbie Land." Tuzova told Reuters, "This is my world too, to some extent. I see some traits of the character in the film in myself because I also feel sad when I return to the gray reality." She added, "I want everything in the real world to be bright and beautiful and magical (like Barbie Land). But when you return to the real world, you lose a lot of things."
Russia is under Western sanctions due to the war in Ukraine, which has left it behind other countries in screening the film. The movie is not officially available for distribution there, but some cinemas intend to circumvent this by showing a digital version of the film "for free" with a ticket that includes a shorter film in Russian. Tuzova presented 300 of the Barbie dolls she has collected to appear at the unofficial premiere of the film scheduled to be held in Moscow on September 9. She said she would have liked to see the film on the cinema screen first, but reluctantly watched a pirated version of it to respond to media questions about her opinion on it. Her obsession with Barbie began in childhood. In an interview conducted in her apartment while wearing pink clothes, she said, "I think Barbie is a role model. Her slogan is 'You can be anything.'" Behind Tuzova, there was a whole wall covered with hundreds of Barbie dolls in rows, all in their original boxes to preserve their value.
