Inklings // December 2025

Hello, dear readers!

I hope you're all having a good MLK day today! Most of my posts this month have been wrapping up 2025 and that continues today as participate in the December 2025 addition of Heidi's monthly link-up, Inklings!

How it works:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back to Heidi's blog in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on that month's post: Heidi's post for December 2025.

This month's prompt is:

A party scene in book or film

This one took me a while to come up with because as an introvert, party scenes usually seem loud and overwhelming. But then I remembered my love for Barbie (2023). One day I'll get around to writing my thoughts about it, but for today I'll talk about the party scene!

There aren't spoilers in this post as this scene happens within the first 20 minutes of the movie. In fact, if you watch the trailer, this scene features pretty heavily. 

"Hey Barbie, can I come to your house tonight?"

Time to dance the night away. Planned choreography to a bespoke song ensues.

It's a real rager, but no party is complete with thinking deep dark thoughts.

*record scratch*

Barbie, perfect as ever, has a way to make up for it though.

But then the dancing seems to be controlling her more than she's controlling it.

I love this scene for several reasons, and the first is because, as my mom pointed out, the dancing is just what one thinks the Barbies one is playing with look like when having a party. Next, this world has been established as being a utopia, but this is a vital scene that reveals something else is going on. Such an abrupt tone shift is a masterpiece in storytelling and I love it.

What to all of you think of this scene? Anyone else have Dua Lipa stuck in their head now? Who would you be in this scene (I'd probably be Alan)?

Thanks for reading!

Chloe the MovieCritic