Devil wears Prada (MOVIE REVIEW)

Our professor last semester gave us a paper work for the 5% research in his subject. He made us watch Devil wears Prada and write a reaction paper. I was really surprise that I didn’t paid much attention when it was first release. It’s soooooooooooo amazing movie! I can totally relate. Here it goes.

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I almost forgot that there are actually some worthy films like this one because I’ve notice that movies these days are all about love, love and love. Of course, if you don’t put a love story in a film, it’s like you forgot to put cheese on your pizza. Don’t get me wrong I’m a fan of love stories especially those where I can relate.

But this is something new.  I am absolutely into life changing, reality opening and heartfelt films and from the moment I saw the first scenes I actually told myself, “Ah I must be crazy not giving myself a chance to see this movie.”

Andrea Sachs or Andy was an undergraduate student of Journalism. A smart, fast learner and hard working young lady who wanted a job and applied for being an assistant of the superior editor in chief of the famous fashion magazine Runway. Not knowing that it’s the beginning of hell in her life.

She had to do ridiculous tasks Miranda, the scary dragon lady also known as her boss, commands. And she has to endure all the pain of walking and running around the whole city with numerous designer paper bags in her hands. She has to do task that are IMPOSIBBLE but she have to make it possible. She has to be the most flexible assistant of Miranda’s assistant. And she has to ditch her boyfriend’s birthday just because her boss told her to do last-minute demands.

She learned patience at its peak, she learned to be strong and reality isn’t about rainbows and butterflies. She also discovered that she can wear designer clothes and actually pulled it off. There are so many things she learnt. She begins to form a friendship between the Fashion Director and Miranda’s real assistant Emily. And she also made a connection to the famous writer for New York magazine.

I can actually picture myself as Andy, the naïve girl who gradually realized that she had to improve her looks and skills for her job. She is after all in a Fashion Industry which requires physical beauty and somehow overlooked inner beauty of every human.

As the day goes by she little by little impressed her boss by doing the impossible stuffs, the problems started to build up. Her boyfriend confronted her that she’s not the old Andy he knows and that she became a Runway girl who only cares for physical aspects and Miranda told her to tell Emily that she’ll replace her for Paris.

She accepted the Paris offer and now she slowly find out a lot of shocking truth in the whole fashion world and began to think about how in the world she let herself got into this messy, and chaotic and unfair world? She didn’t want to hurt anybody else and she doesn’t want to be changed.

She sticks onto her principles and that is what she’ll do. After Miranda told her all of the things she need to know, she showed her boss that NOT everyone wants to be a part of Miranda’s world. She went into different direction, not following her boss and start all over again by picking up the broken pieces of the old Andy.

This film just opened the eyes of beginners in the real industry that everything needs effort, everyone has to be hard working, what really await you, what problems and issues you may encounter and how to put off all your efforts but never, never change your principles and if you think you are just doing it because of the JOB not for passion, start asking yourself, why continue?

It is a moving, wonderful, amazing and funniest film I’ve ever seen. Definitely gonna miss half of your life because it could change you.