Survival of the fittest in the hyperbolic world

Rating: 6/10 (30 September 2014)

The story nicely catches the competition within the fashion industry. It's really a 'dog eat dog' world where one either really loves being so hyperbolic about style and fashion, or forces him/herself to love it and sacrifices so much of his/her personal life. It sure does build on Andy's original character well on the start, and also showed that she's an adaptive person with high sense of initiative. But it kind of raised a philosophical question for me at the end. Can we really say that Andy has a strong will after going through all that and still able to say no and refuse that kind of life Miranda offered her? Or will she be even better if she refused it from the very start? The acting is decently nice overall. Anne Hathaway did quite okay yet she didn't really do well on sad expressions. Meryl Streep plated the ice cold calculated style guru very well, keeping the calm voice intonation almost all the way.