The Devil Wears Prada

I can't remember the last time I watched a chick flick, so lately my mind has been telling me that it is time to watch one in order to regain a healthy balance in life, haha. And so last night I walked into the video store in Takoma and rented "The Devil Wears Prada."

First of all, the movie wasn't a typical chick flick - it didn't featured a girl being heart broken and then swept off her feet by some ken doll. I would only call it a chick flick because it caters to women: fashion and no action. But what I thought was a movie that would allow me to completely vegetate and have no thoughts, it turned out to be a movie that provoked a lot of thinking and me asking many questions.

The movie in a nutshell is this. Andy, a very smart, down to earth girl just graduated from college and want to pursue a career in journalism in New York. Lacking success in hunting for jobs in the journalism field and needing rent money, she applies to a job as an assistant to Miranda, the Editor in Chief of Runway (fashion) magazine. Initially seeing it just as a job in a field that she looks down upon, she soon realized she needed to try to indulge in the field in order to do a good job as Miranda's assistant. Blah blah blah, fast forward, and Andy becomes one of them. She sees the magazine as her universe, she sacrifices her personal life and her personal values to complete impossible tasks Miranda sets her out to do and thinks that she has "no choice" but to do it - all this when the job is nothing close to what she wants to do in life. As her personal life ends up in shambles, Andy realizes that if she keeps up, then one day she'll become like Miranda. My favorite scene in the movie was while riding the limo with Miranda, Andy realizes that how she has been is not who she wants to be and when they got out of the car to do a press event, Andy takes off and does not look back AND throws the ringing cell phone into the fountain.

So how do we do this right?? How do you just walk away when you realize this isn't what you want to do, especially when you've been doing it for a while??? Is it really that easy to just leave or throw your cell phone away into the fountain...aren't there implications? Hmm...