The Intern is a 2015 movie.
It is quite deceiving if you think you're gonna be watching a movie about a retiree having a second or third lease in working life as an elderly Intern. It is a movie about the fast-pace B-to-C-business, a mega online fashion retailer founded just 18 months back, growing in leaps and bounds and having its venture capitalists parachuting a new CEO in because they think the founder is too young (and too female) for a senior role. The movie is about how a woman's marriage might go awry when her career sky rockets. About how stay-at-home-dads can't keep things together, about how biased other stay-at-home-moms judge working mothers, its like -tsk tsk tsk how could you leave your baby at home and go to work kind of look. It is about how difficult it might be for women who give their all to work, risking their husbands sleeping with either the nannies or the neighbouring mommies. And risking to die old and alone, and be buried in the "singles" section of the cemetery, having no one ever missing them.
I do wonder if Anne Hathaway has a message. I mean, The Devil Wears Prada also has a theme like that although ten years back it was work vs boyfriend and friends. Now it's work vs children and hubby. You know, all these "Oscar Love Curse" theme is shitty.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can read Wiki excerpts on the "Oscar Curse":-
"In their paper published in Organization Science, Michael Jensen and Heeyon Kim use the "Oscar Curse" to examine the negative consequences of upward mobility following a sudden positive status shift. With an empirical study, the authors find "Oscar nominations/wins have positive professional consequences for male and female actors but more enduring negative personal consequences for female actors, thus emphasizing an important conundrum for female actors: Oscar nominations/wins can help a career but can also ruin a marriage."
Of course the curse is not real. What is real is that sometimes, the partner / spouse can't adjust and grow together. You see........ there HAS TO BE a tradeoff if it all happened too fast. If the couple can't find a working plan fast enough, then the quick fix would be to go separate ways because they can't keep pace with each other. In a matter of time, there would be an emotional distance. It is not uncommon but the "Oscar curse" is no longer limited to the high-powered actors. Anything that takes off fast enough might knock the air out from anyone, commoner or celebrity alike. There had been more females as "victims" career success not because there was a curse, it's JUST BECAUSE more women are now pushing it. The word is "more". Duh.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can read Wiki excerpts on the "Oscar Curse":-
"In their paper published in Organization Science, Michael Jensen and Heeyon Kim use the "Oscar Curse" to examine the negative consequences of upward mobility following a sudden positive status shift. With an empirical study, the authors find "Oscar nominations/wins have positive professional consequences for male and female actors but more enduring negative personal consequences for female actors, thus emphasizing an important conundrum for female actors: Oscar nominations/wins can help a career but can also ruin a marriage."
Of course the curse is not real. What is real is that sometimes, the partner / spouse can't adjust and grow together. You see........ there HAS TO BE a tradeoff if it all happened too fast. If the couple can't find a working plan fast enough, then the quick fix would be to go separate ways because they can't keep pace with each other. In a matter of time, there would be an emotional distance. It is not uncommon but the "Oscar curse" is no longer limited to the high-powered actors. Anything that takes off fast enough might knock the air out from anyone, commoner or celebrity alike. There had been more females as "victims" career success not because there was a curse, it's JUST BECAUSE more women are now pushing it. The word is "more". Duh.
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