The Iron Lady

Posted on | January 12, 2012 | No Comments

First I must apologise for the silence, life has been making my life a little difficult in regards to finding time to blog and post during times of current affairs, I have had a serious talk with it and we are going to be doing that more often!

The first post of the new year, the new commited and more active new year is “The Iron Lady” a post, but more a movie review.

I went to see this film with the Cheltenham Cinema Club, with an expection from the trailer that it would be a biography film of her years in office and the lead up too, this was however not the case and it was a film I enjoyed and hated at the same time. Meryl Streep was a great Thatcher and there is no denying that her performance of the only female prime minster of the United Kingdom was an amazing sight to see.

I shall start with what I loved about the film, it showed us the fight and the work that thatcher did to raise herself in the ranks and make the party see her as a “Serious” candidate for her constituency and of course eventually her leadership of the country and the party. We see the grocers daughter raise from the shadow of her father, go to University, and meet Dennis whilst on this journey. Although this run up to her political life was nice, it would have been nice to have seen more of it.

The parts of her political life are in the form of flashbacks from items in her house, where the aged Thatcher is suffering from Alzheimer’s, cared for by others. These items for example are a statue of the falklands and other major points in her career. These scenes whilst covering the majority and the seriousness of these challenges in her career, are again too short and feel as if they are only flashbacks.

Now on to the dislikes of the film, first off I would have loved to have seen more of her time as a leader and a part of the party, of the history and the times that she ruled through. This was all overshadowed by the illness and her old age, with Carol thatcher been the daughter who cares for her mother. Dennis appears in her old age as a “Hallucination”, Carol thatcher herself has critised the level of importance on the illness of her mother in this film. Claiming that her mother is not as bad as the film has portrayed. The trailer most defiantly stated it as a biography of her life in politics, and it felt more a story of the demise of a great mind and illness with grief from the loss of Dennis.

As I stated I love and dislike this film for a number of reasons, I did have to think on the review of this film for a little time following. I would love to hear your views on this film once you have seen it.

Rating:
3 out of 5 Stars

Category: Films, Politics
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