whats the point?

Rating: 3/10 (19 October 2015)

For a film to be enjoyable you need to be able to understand or emphasise with the characters and their motivations. For the life of me I couldn't stand just about any of the main characters and frankly found them horrible. I can watch a movie like "Downfall" and hate the Hitler character but I understand the context of it all. Here you have these shallow people and this person who goes to work for a horrible boss and wants to please her. Firstly, I wouldn't have taken such a role but I think I probably would have lasted about 5 minutes before telling her to shove the job up her a**e! The people are all so plastic and shallow that it is hard to see anything in them to like. I guess there are people who are attracted to this sort of industry and probably loved the movie as a result but I just didn't get it. I think it is because I can't see how anyone could put up with these cardboard cut outs. There is a scene where they are discussing what colour something is and then the Meryl Streep character enlightens a slightly bemused Hathaway that it was her who bought this new colour in fashion to the world's attention. I mean, give the women a Noble Prize for her contribution to the world.
The whole thing is a pointless episode in shallowness.
I have given it three stars because the acting (particularly Streep) is pretty good and the film is well shot. Apart from that there isn't really much to recommend it.