About ten years ago, when I was just in high school, I watched this movie with my neighbor's sister, when I was still a little girl who was addicted to Taiwanese idol dramas, remembering only eating and drinking all day, and her biggest worry was only test scores. At that time, I didn't have enough life experience to understand this movie, and I only remembered that the old woman with white hair was a perverted boss with a very bad temper and a very severe temper, and I just thought that Anne Hathaway's transformation from rustic to fashionable and exquisite was really too good.
A few days ago, I talked about this movie with my colleagues, and my colleagues lamented that as they get older and encounter more and more temptations in the outside world, people can easily forget their original intentions and be swallowed up by their own desires. People really still have to be as Andrea chose at the end of the film, it is best to be simple, find the original heart, and return to the lover. After listening to these exclamations, I deeply felt that I was not watching the same movie, so I took the time to revisit this old movie, and after watching the whole film, there were many different feelings, and sure enough, the benefits of some movies really had to be seen at a certain age and had enough experience.
The film is about Andrea, a graduate with the dream of becoming a journalist, who runs into a wall in her job search, and finally receives an interview call, although she does not want to go to the interview. I thought that the interview failed who knew that I had accidentally obtained a job in a fashion magazine that all girls dreamed of, although the boss was harsh, inhumane to the point of being mean, and colleagues were not very friendly to themselves, Andrea worked hard to endure and constantly improve her work ability and clothing taste. Slowly gorgeous clothes and shoes, glamorous jobs, opportunities to join the upper class, and the appreciation and reuse of her boss make Andrea gradually lose herself, and even break up with friends and boyfriends. Until her boss betrayed her friends and colleagues who had been fighting side by side for many years in order to keep her position, she suddenly realized that it was not the life she wanted, and resolutely gave up everything to get back to the beginning.
In the last part of the film, Miranda once told Andrea in the car that she saw herself in her, perhaps she had worked hard and endured like Andrea when she was young, in order to get the job that every girl dreams of, in order to get to the current position, perhaps he also lost friends and lovers like Andrea, and finally stood alone at the top of the fashion industry. So, she was willing to cultivate Andrea, willing to give her another chance. If Andrea hadn't left after getting off the bus but followed Miranda closely, decades later she might have been the next Miranda, or maybe Miranda had chosen that way, cutting through the thorns and giving up everything to sit in her current seat.
But Andrea chose to give up, she saw the cruelty and ugliness of the industry and was more willing to find her original intention and return to her lover to start over, and Miranda, who looked mean and vicious, also chose to fulfill her and even help her get the opportunity she wanted. So, I wonder if Miranda would have thought about what would have happened if she had taken a step back and left the industry when her position was about to be replaced, when her marriage was breaking down? Maybe it's like Andrea? Could this be the reason she was willing to fulfill Andrea? In any case, I couldn't hate Miranda because her age, her position, and everything she had sacrificed wouldn't allow her to fail, and she had nowhere to go. Therefore, she chose the way to do the least harm to herself, sacrificing friends who have supported each other for many years, which is the weakness of human nature, everyone can only take priority in considering themselves, first want me to be good, in order to be good, I understand her.
Everyone excuses themselves with the fact that I don't have a choice, as Andrea says to her friends, boyfriend, emily every time. But in fact, no, most of the time, people have a choice, but they choose what is more important to themselves, but they are not willing to lose the less important one, so they excuse themselves as not choosing to get the other party's understanding. Miranda's great point is that she sees through her own choices, and she knows what is most important to herself, and she can sacrifice others for this most important. In the end, the heroine can resolutely give up is not because she is still young, has not yet fallen into too deep into too much investment, she can still withdraw, what she lost can also be recovered, she has no loss. We can't judge who Andrea and Miranda have made the right or wrong choices, after all, no one can know the future direction of things when making choices, choices are made by themselves, the road must be walked by themselves, right or wrong can only be borne by themselves.