nycmermaid | Jan. 27th, 2007

Okay, I really never had much interest in seeing The Devil Wears Prada. But I'm bored and for some reason was seized with the interest to see some Oscar-nominated movies/performances, and it was available on On Demand, so I bought it. Not five minutes of this movie have passed and I'm fuming, so much so that I went to the computer and signed on just to vent.

Okay, I get it, this girl is no fashion mag princess, she is not glamourous, she is not frou frou. But she has an apartment in in the Lower East Side, her boyfriend is Adrien Grenier (who seems to be a cook or a chef or something at this point, and probably in the trendy sense), she went to an expensive school, and we're supposed to be seeing her as what? A normal, boring every day run-of-the-mill one-of-us? Fine. I will try to suspect disbelief to the extent that I can pretend she has roaches in her apartment, and know they don't cast unpretty girls in lead roles in movies like this, and I can pretend that she is somehow awkward (though she clearly is not), but the breaking point for me came in the scene where she's talking to Meryl Streep's Anna Wintour character and she actually utters the words "I know I'm not skinny." EXCUSE ME??????? She's a fucking STICK. I know Hollywood tries to insult our intelligence all the time, but to make Anne Hathaway actually utter those words disgusted me. But I already paid for this piece of crap, so I could see Meryl Streep be delightfully bitchy, so I guess I will just root for the bitchy editor and not the supposedly poor, lowly, ugly fat girl. Ugh.

Okay, I finished watching the movie and I didn't hate it. No, I never sympathized with "Andy"--how could I when she had everything going for her, even when it seemed she didn't? But overall it was a decent flick I suppose. The fact is, lots of TV shows and movies like to portray "down and out" young people the way they do on shows like Friends. Reality is that most people do not have big apartments in hip neighborhoods, or trendy jobs, or model-hot boyfriends. This is not reality and I should not compare myself to it, nor should anyone. I am happy with my career, my little Queens studio, and occasionally even my long-distance quasi-boyfriend, when I let myself be. Don't ask me why I needed to watch this movie to declare this, I just did.