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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is capitalist art that hates capitalist art

Vox·Alex Abad-Santos·about 1 month ago
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The Devil Wears Prada is one of the great millennial fairy tales. Released in 2006, the year before the financial crisis and Great Recession would come for us all, the movie (based on a novel inspired by writer Lauren Weisberger’s experience working for Anna Wintour at Condé Nast) posits a subversive fantasy: Our heroine Andrea “Andy” Sachs (Anne Hathaway) believes that if she can figure out how to work for Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) for just one year, she can have any job in the industry that she wants. In the end, she learns that if you work hard and stay true to your values, you can have a good, well-paying job in New York City that doesn’t require selling your soul or betraying your friends. Given the way life has shaken out for many millennials , that story is now a bit depressing — not unlike the way most fairy tales, upon greater inspection, are.…

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