Dirty Underbelly of any industry - this shows of Fashion

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2018)

The movie is based on a novel (2003) written by Lauren Weisberger which has been translated to more than 35 languages.
The Director David Frankel had read the novel and later thought of making it into a movie. There were several screenplay writers who worked to finalize the movie script, but the credit was ultimately given to Aline Brosch McKenna.
The movie is based on a real life true character the editor of Vogue Anna Wintour where Lauren had worked as an assistant for a short while. In the movie the role of real Anna is named Miranda (played villainously by Meryl Streep) and that of Lauren is named Andy (played by a new comer Anne Hathway).
The choice of Meryl was obvious but Anne had to push herself to get the role, but the new debut of Miranda's first secretary Emily played by Emily Blunt was after auditioning 1000 aspirants.
Meryl based her role and enacted it just imitating a brutal MAN running his company.
The story is about how Andy who wants to be a journalist gets sucked into the fashion industry through this magazine where she gets job as a secretary to Miranda, who is a brutal task master - one who is obnoxious and never satisfied.
The first secretary Emily aspires to be with Miranda, but with time Andy rises the ladder in the organization and does not realize that she is losing her love, her friends and her soul in the work she is doing.
When she realizes it she quits the job and joins a firm as a journalist and there the movie ends showing Andy liberated and happy.
The movie takes a shot at Fashion industry and takes a dubious view-point and presents it with enough guts to expose the underbelly of it.
So this time on my second viewing - I felt that - you take any industry - and when you work in it and climb the ladder - and if you are sucked into it defending it and living it - you will not be aware of the dirty underbelly of that industry.
But if one has to protect one's soul - one has to protect even if one works as a journalist - or even as a social worker or any other thing.
The moment your soul takes precedence - you will feel that the work you are doing does not fulfill your search and what you are seeking.
So to show the Fashion industry in bad light is a one-dimensional take. As much as fashion designers are superficial - so are journalist - so are any other professions.
So this was the take of mine - while watching the movie a second time.
The movie was a dud on USA box office but raked mullah on international release and became the biggest block-bluster internationally.
What happened actually was that people went gaga over the designer clothes worn in the movie rather than taking the message home.
I think, in my first viewing there was so much of critical buzz, that one gets dragged in the flow of positive reviews. Now after 10 years, it is a right frame of mind from which one watches the movie and gives a balanced review.
Overall - it was a okay movie. I will go with 5.5 out of 10.