Wednesday, 06 September 2006
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The Devil Wears Prada
Meryl Streep is the devil and she’s clad in the most incomprehensible stuff in this movie adaptation of the chick lit, The Devil Wears Prada.
The movie stars Disney princess turned topless cowgirl Anne Hathaway and while it is supposed to be a chick flick and a dumb movie, I, together with some friends decided that it would be worth our while; given the considerably good reviews so off we went to G4 last Saturday and boy was it worth every penny.
Anne Hathaway is able to make her Andy Sachs a very loveable character, flaws and all (although in my book, it is ultimately wrong to sleep with another guy just to have a major epiphany afterwards – I think it is downright stupid). As an aspiring journalist temporarily blinded by the glitz and glamour of the industry that she got herself in, Hathaway was very convincing and anyone who has ever worked and found himself/herself wanting could relate to almost all of Andy’s entanglements.
The movie has managed to pack in all the essential elements of a good comedy - great visuals, witty one-liners, great characterization (Miranda Priestly and Andy Sachs are as real as any of us can get) and most importantly, some biting moral lessons.
As the credits roll, we hurried off for dinner and as we were escalating down the Food Choices, I overheard a pair having some post movie discussion: A girl was asking her friend “So, who is the devil?”
Immediately, my reaction was like, huh? D-uh? But as we were eating dinner (I tend to do some serious intellectual masturbation while having my pesto spaghetti) and below are the seeds:
The movie tells us that indeed, the devil is inside of us and we sometimes allow it to take the steering wheel and direct our lives. When we forget to value the things that really matter and succumb to the temptation being peddled to us by our vanity and ignorance, we let the devil win ‘the battle’. However, the movie tells us that just like the main protagonist Andy Sachs, we may stray from the right path but we can always get ourselves back on track (now if only I could get that gadget she threw in the fountain.hehehe).
Watch it. You might learn a lesson or two while having some lol moments.
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