THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA

This is the story of a young girl called Andy. She lives with her boyfriend in a small flat, they are a normal couple, and their life consists of friends and love and, obviously, work. Andy’s boyfriend has a job; Andy doesn’t so she is looking for one. Luckily she finds one really quickly, but in a place completely different to her ordinary life. It’s with a prestigious fashion magazine called runway and she gets the post of the personal assistant of Miranda Priestly, the chief editor. At the beginning she feels very much out of place because all her workmates seem to value different things in life, for example, for most of them working for the magazine, and thus with fashion and clothes, is their most important goal. On the contrary, Andy is not a fashion victim at all, she doesn’t care about either her looks or her clothes and she is happy this way. Obviously that creates a contradiction in Andy, she would like to quit the job but after talking to her boyfriend and analyzing her financial situation he convinces her to stay on. Every day she works harder and harder to make a good impression and a good job, and she achieves that by transforming herself, she starts caring about her looks, her clothes, and every day more, she depends on her telephone and she doesn’t have time to spend with her “old life”. This is mainly due to her very tyrannical boss who seems to occupy every minute of Andy’s life. When she reaches the top of her career, she is completely absorbed in the work for the magazine, and she feels good about that. Yet her boyfriend is not really happy with the situation, he feels that Andy is a new person, worse than the old Andy, because of that he advises her to think very carefully about what she really values in life. She continues working but thinking at the same time, and finally, she understands that the things that attracted her at the beginning in this glamorous world of fashion don’t matter to her anymore.
Critique:
After having seen the film, in the language room, I thought that the scene was quite attractive as it was set in the fashion world, but on the other hand it was a little bit boring because, from my point of view, the argument was quite simple. However, the message that the films brings across is very appealing: looks and superficies aren’t all in life, there are more important values.