the devil wears prada

always wanted to watch it cos of the good reviews i heard from people
finally managed to rent it today
was waiting for friends to open anyway

its a good show..
while in theory its really true that we always make our choices instead of "i had no choice" i wonder if we actually realise that. i do sympathise with anne hathaway who was just sucked into the whole fashion industry quite without any warning but as 'emily' said "i just knew it was going to happen..right from the day you put on that pair of jimmy choos" [slightly paraphrased]. and it seemed kind of strange that it was meryl streep who told her all abt choices cos she made some pretty bad choices too. dramatic irony huh..

i wonder if the fashion world is really so..sad or is it just a stereotype as people always assume. stuff like skinny girls who diet their life away, the socialising with big shots that you don't even know, the diva cum tai tai iron lady editor in chief and the sad marriage and personal lives. makes me so glad that i aint good at drawing so i never ever contemplated a career in a world of fashion. while the show was successful at de-glamourising the industry it feels like its a little extreme especially that 'emily' aka the 1st assistant.

perhaps the only personal gripe abt the show is that meryl streep still remains an egima at the end, a person whose heart and mind stays unread and un-understood. very brief clips showed her self with the mask loosen from her face. while that shows that she isnt only that "dragon lady" it was insufficient for me and it was a little unbelieveable that she cant switch from her divorce problems to table seating in like an instant. and her final supposed private approval of her previous assistant appeared more as a smirk than anything else. but it was an approval - what which counts.

the central message was the choice bit - something which i already knew cos wei shieng was telling us abt it before. hopefully the choices i make would be good ones and not those that would bring me down the slippery slope of "no choice" syndrome. i pray for discernment in any decision i make.

* i think i havent been writing proper for way too long. seem to have lost a little skill and this feels so disjointed throughout. hmm..hope this improves..