fashion passion

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2007)

As Meryl Streep has long been known for serious roles - some of them a bit sappy - it was great to see her play the bitchy lead in "The Devil Wears Prada". Anne Hathaway plays a young woman who moves to New York and gets a job working at Streep's fashion magazine, only to find that Streep lives an entire existence based on schadenfreude (she's only happy if everyone else is on pins and needles), wants the most impossible things (e.g., the unpublished Harry Potter manuscript) and that the people in the fashion industry are too full of themselves for their own good (they act like they're curing cancer). Unless she can do something to rock the boat.
I think that Streep had some of the funniest lines that I've heard in a long time, namely her whole monologue about cerulean. It goes to show how ridiculous these people in the upper echelons really are, but I also like some of the stuff (oops, "stuff" is a forbidden word in fashion!) that Hathaway pulls. Like "Pret-a-Porter" and "Zoolander", this movie leaves nothing unscathed. You gotta love it as much as I did. It certainly deserved its Oscar nominations. So yes, don't bore me with your...questions.
Also starring Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt and Simon Baker.