This was kinda cute but also really annoying. Anne Hathaway plays the young innocent working as an assistant for Meryl Streep who heads a fashion magazine and is a dragon. She is rude, condescending, obnoxious, and more. She makes absurd demands and wants things done immediately. One was "I need 15 skirts from Dior". When asked "what kind of skirts" her response was "bother someone else with the details". Now that's kind of minor and it's one of hundreds in the film, the most absurd was also the most amusing. My children finished the latest Harry Potter book last night and want to know what happens next, get the next book by 4pm for them". Of course the next book hadn't been published next.
Now of course, Hathaway starts out with all these self doubts and being awkard then through hard work and perseverance does ok at the job (though barely gets any recognition of this) at the cost of her friends and life. At the end she moves on to something else because she doesn't want to be like Streep.
What's annoying is that Streep's character is a blight on humanity. I would have quit the first day and there's nothing wrong with that. No one deserves to be treated as she treats everyone. After a short time Hathaway has her inevitable breakdown and talks with the one person in the company who helps her at all (Stanley Tucci in a nice role). He tells her she's not really trying. Ridiculous. A change of clothes later and she's doing great until the requests get crazier still. Streep's character never gets told off and at one point we're supposed to feel sorry for her. Wasn't going to happen.
While this movie tried to have a good message, it just reinforced bad ones by even tolerating them.
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