What are you aiming at in life?

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2007)

This is movie is apparently about fashion but really about human nature. What are you aiming at in life when you chose a job? Just only something that gives you a salary that allows you to pay for your expenses and survive? Or something that fulfills the deepest aspirations of your personality? Or something that gives you power over other people? Or something that will eventually place you up in the social scale? Or something at which you can show your special talent and skill? And how can you deal with a tyrannical boss that doesn't show the least respect for you as a human being? These are the questions put in this movie and with great talent by its director. Meryl Streep does an excellent part as the tough and tyrannical boss of a famous fashion magazine. The atmosphere of the magazine offices is hectic due mainly to the permanent orders and countermands of the despotic director which often causes the newly admitted assistant (Anne Hathaway's character) to be stricken with panic. All these scenes and situations are shown and developed in a tremendous but excellent visual rhythm and the cast performing is also superb. This is was undoubtedly one of the best movies of the year. But can anyone please tell what the movie title has got to do with its contents?