Project Runway meets Heart of Darkness

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2018)

Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt. Anne Hathaway is a young journalist who gets a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the boss of Runway fashion magazine. And Anne Hathaway slowly begins to learn that she signed a deal with the devil. I'm a guy and I know nothing about fashion. In fact I think I may the worst fashion sense that if Miranda Priestly were to walk in at any moment she would insult me. So all the scenes where they should the latest outfits had zero effect on me. But what I liked about Devil Wears Prada is that the producers, screenwriters, and costume department did their research and created what is Project Runway meets Heart of Darkness. And those two things don't really go together because when I think of Devil Wears Prada. I certainly don't think of those two things and when everyone took something as boring and mundane as Project Runway, give it a makeover and transform it into something dark and scary. Not scary as in horror, but scary as in a different side of the fashion industry that I never knew existed. Or I hope that doesn't exist behind close doors because I certainly wouldn't want that job. And Meryl Streep is the icing on the cake as she plays a ruthless, cold-hearted boss that she could be the devil herself of the fashion industry. As she that aurora of terror in her body and personality, that I could feel that energy pass over to me as she adds more fuel to the fire about how I would not work in the fashion industry or have a boss like that in general. Anne Hathaway is also brilliant as she plays everyone and anyone who gets their dream job or has landed a job, only for them to realize that their boss is cruel and cold-hearted. And we've all been in that position whether or not you care to admit it or not. I wouldn't exactly put this movie under the comedy section as I was naïve as to think that this would be another cheesy romantic comedy and it is. But watching this opened my eyes that putting this under the comedy genre would be a sin. Overall, I would summarize this movie as a light- hearted version of Heart of Darkness minus the intensity and the psychological thriller of the novel. So in the end while I may not have enjoyed the fashion aspect of the movie because I found it boring, I applaud the movie for taking two things that have nothing to do with each other and creating something that fun and entertaining to watch for girls and guys.