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The Iron Lady (2011)
Feb. 20th, 2012 16:04The Iron Lady. Dir. Phyllida Lloyd, 2011.
I am of two minds about this movie, although all in all I think it's well worth seeing, and that is because (no surprise) Meryl Streep is AMAZING. I mean, obviously, she's always good, but most of this movie is set fairly recently, in late 2009, and Meryl Streep is mind-blowingly good at portraying Thatcher's senescence--not Alzheimer's, apparently, but rather much more pedestrian dementia. At any rate, Streep is fantastic, and her portrayal of Thatcher is amazing.
( Dissatisfaction )
There are things about this movie that I liked--Thatcher's difficult relationship with her daughter, her total incomprehension of what her own career meant for women of her daughter's generation, her own idiosyncratic understanding of feminism, her campaign to take over the Convservative Party in the mid-1970s--but all in all this is not the movie I wanted about Maggie Thatcher. It may be, however, that its condescending admiration is the best we can currently expect.
I am of two minds about this movie, although all in all I think it's well worth seeing, and that is because (no surprise) Meryl Streep is AMAZING. I mean, obviously, she's always good, but most of this movie is set fairly recently, in late 2009, and Meryl Streep is mind-blowingly good at portraying Thatcher's senescence--not Alzheimer's, apparently, but rather much more pedestrian dementia. At any rate, Streep is fantastic, and her portrayal of Thatcher is amazing.
( Dissatisfaction )There are things about this movie that I liked--Thatcher's difficult relationship with her daughter, her total incomprehension of what her own career meant for women of her daughter's generation, her own idiosyncratic understanding of feminism, her campaign to take over the Convservative Party in the mid-1970s--but all in all this is not the movie I wanted about Maggie Thatcher. It may be, however, that its condescending admiration is the best we can currently expect.
