A Look at The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada story is all about being the best of the best even if it would result in a lot of casualties in the way. It is about stepping in other people’s lives for the sake of saving yourself.

First, the story goes around Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) the editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine, a person who has an Imeldific-Ms. Attitude-devilish type of attitude. Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) on the other hand is a fresh graduate from Northwestern University and an aspiring journalist gets a chance to have a work with Miranda Priestly as an assistant.

The turning point of the story is when Andy, a poor out-fashioned lady, turned itself to be a great fashionista with the help of Art director Nigel (Stanley Tucci). He taught Andy how to be more stylistic and fashionable. He allowed Andy to use some of the clothes used in their magazine shoots until eventually Andy was able to shop on her own. She would buy trendy dresses at fashion stores, boutiques and perhaps in trendy wholesale apparel stores, and make the best out of it until Miranda recognizes her glam in fashion.

Andy was busy spending time with work taking calls and going where Miranda goes such as buying something in stores, i.e., designer stores as Miranda is never known to frequent wholesale dresses stores or doing business trips. But her personal life is on the verge of breaking down. Her college friends as well as her boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier) began to turn their backs on her and begun to resent her work with Miranda.

The film depicted how to make decisions in life whether to step on other else’s life just to be on top and this is the kind of mentality that connotes deception at the back of other people. When Andy agreed to go to Paris with Miranda, it showed how competition and power can turn an ordinary person into a whole new person.

Also, when she sacrificed Nigel just to keep her own job is one devilish act without realizing the consequence or the debt of gratitude in their friendship over work. But then, at the end of the story she decided to take a leap to change as soon as she threw her phone in the fountain of the Place de la Concorde and left Miranda, the runway, and fashion behind.

The Devil Wears Prada has an eccentric approach to the audience because it gives the viewers a call to realize or a self evaluate their own attitude and their lives.

It goes to show how people will do everything just to be on top of the game, but the deciding factor is very crucial and life changing. It is all about making a decision whether to choose a life of greed, power and with no else but yourself, or choose a life with friends and loved ones on your side and live a happy life.