The story is very similar to #Queen WearingPrada# . While telling the workplace story of two sharp women, one old and one young, it also reflects the current controversy brought about by Hollywood's pursuit of diversity. "Minority women now have a huge advantage over white men when it comes to finding jobs," says one of the male screenwriters in the film. That's true. The film is ridiculed about this, but it also reflects how when minority women get this opportunity, how to grasp it is more important to show their talents.
Mindy Kaling starred as a screenwriter precisely because she was a minority woman, motivated and outspoken, and got the chance to be hired as a screenwriter on her favorite show. This is called "Diversity Hire" in the film, and in order to achieve the company's employee diversity goals, we are lucky to have the opportunity. She was of course ridiculed and distrusted by her male colleagues for this. Her boss, talk show hostess Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson), is a snarky, staid female boss who doesn't respect or care about her subordinates and is in a career crisis. Fortunately, the new female screenwriter really helped her, and the two lonely women formed a friendship that shared adversity.
The film incidentally tells the story of the female protagonist stepping into a workplace that was once occupied by old white men, facing all kinds of irony and pressure, and trying to prove that she is indeed worthy of this position as a lucky person with "diversified admissions". The film also shows the cruelty and variability of the entertainment industry through the process before and after the production of the TV show column: anyone who cannot adjust himself with the times may be eliminated at any time. Even the film did not forget to make fun of the current trend of "revealing scandals" and breaking a celebrity. It can be said that this film is a keen and meticulous observation of the current state of the Hollywood industry and American society. The language is very sharp, but it is very witty and ironic.
Many celebrities, including Sai Jinhua, Steve Martin, RDJ, etc., were mentioned, and they also ridiculed the phenomenon that Avengers, reality TV and YouTube celebrities are more popular than various experts.
Although the structure of the story is very old-fashioned, it is an excellent comedy that focuses on the shortcomings of the times. Emma Thompson played the bad-faced female anchor very well, and almost every sentence was cursing in a different way. Although arrogant and difficult to deal with, but finally dare to face his own mistakes, and finally let go of the defense line to reveal himself, he is very sincere and moving. I love her performance.
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