I remember the first time I saw this film when I was still in school, probably in my senior year, I saw this film as an American commercial film with exaggerated colors and comedy elements, like boring It is a snack used to pass the time, so I don't have a deep appreciation for what the movie is trying to express. When I saw him again, I was already working, and I was also a secretary. At this time, I could finally understand the way of thinking of the writer and director, and gradually understand the description of the relationship between work and life in the film.
The film is based on the main line of the protagonist Anti's assistant work experience of less than one year, but it does not describe every link of the work in detail, but focuses on a certain work detail, through repeated appearances in different time periods. The lens of the same job shows how boring and repetitive the assistant's work is, and it also reflects the hardship and helplessness of the assistant's work by looking for the handwritten script of "Harry Potter" for the boss's children. In fact, regarding the secretarial work, especially the full-time secretary of the leader, it is just like in the movie, but it is not so exaggerated and perverted. I am like Andy every day, except that her boss needs her to prepare Starbucks coffee every day, while mine needs tea; her boss asks her to find handwritten manuscripts of unpublished novels, And my boss asked me to handle a business that cannot be handled by a third party in principle...
The hardships of an assistant or a secretary are unimaginable for ordinary people, just like the first time I watched "The Devil Wears Prada" At times, I would envy Andy's work. I work with fashion every day, I can make many high-level friends, choose any brand of fashion, and travel comfortably at public expense...; but after I personally experienced this work, I began to feel that myself Childish thinking at the time. What is an assistant (secretary)? It’s just a fox that takes advantage of the prestige of a tiger. The brilliance under the halo is always temporary. You will always have only work but no achievements, only hard work and no inevitable return. Everything depends on how your boss feels about you, like Miranda, a boss like Nigel, would betray him in order to keep his position, betray the opportunity that originally belonged to him, and all you can do is wait.
It is not difficult to do a job, but it is not easy to do it well. You may give up a lot of things in order to do a job well, including friendship, love and so on. So how can we handle the relationship between work and life? In fact, I don't know very well, but I think naively that as long as we don't do things that violate morality and conscience at work, we can count as hard work. Maybe what we do is not perfect, but we don't need to be right. Everything is demanding; and life is our focus. It is full of our friends, our lovers, and our relatives. We cannot give up all of this because of work, because we are like lips and teeth, is an inseparable part. A happy life every day is the greatest meaning of our life, just like the sentence Xu Sanduo always said in "Soldier Assault", "To live well is a meaningful thing, and a meaningful thing is to live well."
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