The Devil Forgets the Plot

Magnificent Humanity

Alone for my last night in New York, I took myself to the cinema to watch The Devil Wears Prada 2. I was confident that it would be enjoyable, - how could it not be, with our old friends Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), Andy Sachs (Ann Hathaway), and Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci being - all the reviews told us - on reliably good form?

And it WAS enjoyable. But a bit disconcerting. Why? What none of the reviews (that I read) had told me, was that the new version entirely forgets what made The Devil Wears Prada, 2006 one of the best films ever made. We all remember the scene where Ann Hathaway, clad in that famous cerulean sweater, is asked by the merciless editor of RUNWAY, Miranda Priestly whether she thinks that she ‘chose’ the garment.

If (unlikely , I know) I was asked to teach economics to students, I would start with this clip, which demonstrates more clearly than Marx’s Das Kapital the way markets work, the way consumers are