I thought The Devil Wears Prada looked fun, but the trailer suggested it might be an ugly duckling film. You know the type: stunningly beautiful actress is given frizzy hair and glasses and mocked by her peers, then halfway through the film gets a makeover plus contact lenses and emerges a jaw-dropping slow-motion wonder. Anne Hathaway certainly meets the criteria (and in fact did exactly this as a 14-year-old in The Princess Diaries, which I remember thinking had some very odd morals in this regard), but happily The Devil Wears Prada has more to it. There is a transformation, but it links into an overall theme and isn’t pushed as entirely virtuous. I thought the whole film was very well made, and really enjoyed it. I have a feeling that there were many cameos from famous fashion people that completely passed me by, mind.
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I think that despite the overtures of fashion and glamour there was in fact some decent morales underneath the surface. Things like the importance of work-life balance and that working hard has its own rewards are good life lessons. Ok the film also highlights image, from dressing appropriately, to the pscyhological advantage of changing self image, but then these too are fairly important lessons. Dressing for suceess has been around for some time, and understandable enough in many proffessional circumstances, and having the boost of self confidence that comes with ‘changing’ your own self-perception to see yourself accomplishing your aspirations are fairly important to succeeding in life.