Cars and The Devil Wears Prada

I didn't sleep at all on the flight from the States to Beijing, watched all 4 movies. Cars is definitely better than I expected. Even though I am a big time Pixar fans, somehow I didn't expect Cars to meet the bars of the previous releases, which can probably more or less be attributed to my lack of interest in cars in general. This movie has a storyline more complicated and appealing to adult audiences compared to its predecessors. In short, it portraits one of the small towns in the States which is half deserted. I visited one of those towns, Virginia City near Reno 2 years back. In a museum, we chatted with the owner, and he used to work in one of the Fortune 100 companies as senior management earning big bucks. He left the company after the company laid off a bunch of workers because jobs got outsourced. He felt the company is too "cold", and enjoyed living in a small town where people are much closer and more human.

The Devil Wears Prada is more than a movie about fashion. It brings up the dilemma of a typical working women who don't have work-life balance. One of the points emphasized in the film: If a woman give more priority to work than her family, she is more likely to experience a failed marriage than a man who does the same. Also, another point bring brought up many times: Often we complain that we don't have choice when it comes to work, when we need to pick up urgent cellphones when hanging out with family, when working late to miss other appointments with friends, but do we really have no choice or we have already chosen?