1. Servers Are People Not Slaves: One of the main points that are brought up is the class issue. The X’s treat Annie in a condescending manner by doing such things by addressing her by ”Nanny” and making her take the rap for everything that goes wrong. And what really gets me about the wives is how they don’t think that “the help” are people, they go to these special classes on how to deal with their nannies. News flash: Get off you high horse and you won’t have any problems, but no they go to these dehumanizing classes to make them feel better about how they treat working people. Bottom line treat the people you call the help with respect, no matter how rich you get.
2. Stay True to yourself: In the movie, Annie secretly takes the nanny job against her mother’s wishes to find out if she should go into finance (like her mother wants her) or go into anthropology (what she wants to do).Over the course of the movie she goes through a journey that makes her a stronger and self-assured person. In the movie she talks about “going native”, a term that describes someone completely putting oneself in a culture that it affects their personal behavior. With the X’s she ”goes natives” and by doing this she finds out what she doesn’t want to be. In the end, he is bold enough to stand up to the X’s and tell her mother that she wants to be anthropologist.
3. Good Friends Are Forever: I like the friendship between Annie and her friend Lynette. Number one they are completely different, Annie is uptight and Lynette is laid back. But they have each others backs. When Annie’s mom was in town, and she needed a cover, Lynette let her use her apartment, so make it look she was living there. Lynette gave her real advice when Annie was going extremely native. She did push Annie against her will at the bar to talk to Harvard Hottie and his boys, but because of it he came by to apologize to her and they end up going out. Good friends have your back and tell you the things you NEED to hear.
4. Somewhere on your journey you can meet your “Harvard Hottie”: In the movie Annie’s love interest, “Harvard Hottie” is an interesting character, he is blue blooded, but he’s not snobby like Mr. and Mrs. X. He explores many parts of NYC, even the parts where the rich people wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. Over the course of the movie, they meet over several awkward meetings. But he liked her even though every time he saw her it was a disaster. Ladies hold out for your “Havard Hottie”, who still likes you even when you look your worst.
5. Money doesn’t equal happiness: Its corny and obvious, but its true. take the X’s for example. They are very wealthy, but Mr. X is a cheating jerk, which makes Mrs. X a bitter controlling not-so-much of a housewife, which affects the child, Grayer, negatively. Over the course of the movie, Grayer is closer to Annie than he is to his own parents, mainly because when they are there, she shoos him away when he comes to lovingly greet them. They passively make up for it by giving him fancy things he doesn’t need, like the French clowns. Annie took Grayer to the oh- so- simple Museum of Natural History, and Grayer liked it. Think about it.
