good comedy

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2011)

Before reading, the movie review contain spoiler. The Devil Wears Prada is a comedy and drama movie in 2006. Andrea Sachs who was played by Anne Hathaway, a naive girl just graduated. She goes to New York City to be the second assistant for powerful and demanding fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly who was played by Meryl Streep. Andrea dreams to be a journalist, so she faces challenges from Miranda. Although she has been helped by other people, she not only gradually lost her personal and private life with her family, friend and boyfriend, but also is far away from her dream. This movie was set in fashion word. This element is attracted people who like fashion. Many designers allowed their clothes and accessories to be used in the film, making it the most expensively costumed film in history. But is this only reason to make people like it? I think there is another important reason that people love to see struggle for success or find the meaning of life. In this plot, Andrea has to make huge effort to make her "devil" boss appreciate her. In other words, she is not a princess who was born with beauty, fortune and prince charming; she is just a normal girl who looks like most of normal people in this world. But she still has some great characters which plenty of people don't own. Such as kind, clever, insistence and the rational to refuse temptation. On the other hand, we love Miranda too; she is an independent woman who is stronger than many men. She loves her fashion career deeply; even she did many iron-fisted policies which man would not do. However, she is not a cold, mechanical, soul-dead woman, she also is a mother who loves her daughters, a woman who wants to have a good relationship; also she is a good boss to find other people's talents and has kind heart to recommend Andrea to her new boss. From my point of view, I love both Andrea an Miranda. However, it's more difficult to play Miranda, because she is more complex. As we see, Meryl Streep indeed is a great actress; she played this role very well. I love the way she played Miranda, she never speak louder but makes you feel dignified. By the way, I love the songs in the movie, it's really beautiful.