The Nanny Diaries
Film Review: The Nanny Diaries
Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy, Nicholas Art.
Release Date: 2007
About
Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson) is a young student from New Jersey who just finished his college career. Decides to move to New York for an interview at a bank, but the financial world is not what she expected. Almost inadvertently ends up working as a nanny of the child consented to four years of age of a wealthy New York family. Annie must learn to move in a hostile environment that has its own rules and conventions, and that she is completely ignorant. The comic situations are chained while Annie will adapt to their new surroundings, falls for a wealthy young man and tries to teach the child that there are things money can’t buy.
My opinion
Here’s a bunch comedy that ends up being better than average by introducing certain elements that make it an original product but certainly enjoyable. This film tries to give the message that money can not buy happiness and that blinds people to the point of forgetting their loved ones, children included. The film is a anthropological analysis of the American upper class, with the excuse that the protagonist and narrator of the story just graduated in Anthropology. Although his reflections do not discover the powder dry, are interesting and well posed.
The way in which he portrays upper class New York is successful, showing that for many it does not matter what happens inside their homes while giving a good impression to the gallery. The class struggle is also well posed in the film with certain notes, like all Latin American or Asian nannies are except the protagonist.
The cast is solvent, starting Laura Linney, without falling into the overacting knows how to give the right dose of temperament and histrionics to its unstable character. Starring Scarlett Johansson is worth its weight in gold, like Alicia Keys, Paul Giamatti and Chris Evans as secondary, although the latter is involved with the essential shoe for the protagonist’s love object. And luckily the child is funny and never becomes repellent.
Not only is a film that speaks only of the upper class and their whims. It speaks about the crisis facing the kids who finish college and have no idea what to do, and the pressure that parents subject their toddler to help him become what they want. It is strongly recommended.
Rating: 7/10
Quote:
Annie Braddock: In Africa they have the saying, it takes a village to raise a child. But for the tribe of the upper-eastside of Manhattan, it takes just one person. The nanny
