The Iron Lady 2011-Meryl Streep Best Actress Academy Award 2012

THE IRON LADY is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Two-time Oscar® winner Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom

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I was fortunate to see the screening of the Iron Lady, and can report that the expectation that the performance of Meryl Streep is amazing fully justified. After seeing him in many roles, it is not surprising - he is widely regarded as one of the greatest living actress - but here the transformation into an old woman, including accents, makeup, attitude and personality, is nothing short of astonishing. Thatcher politics is very conservative and abrasive manner of course very controversial - and this depiction of their very timely. But regardless of the political audience, I can not imagine anyone watching this and not feel he had seen something extraordinary.

Thatcher's life story is told through a series of flashbacks experienced by women shortly after he left office as prime minister with the longest tenure of the 20th century, and the first female PM. We see how he entered politics, met her husband, came to power, earning the nickname Iron Lady, and driven from office by his own party. For those unfamiliar with his life and politics, it is education, at least superficially. Attempt is made to deviate from the direct biopic format to have a mind of Thatcher failed during his old age, resulting in hallucinations about her late husband's emphasis on film. The device is effective, but still, this is a film not-quite-conventional about the life of one historical figure, was made especially interesting by Streep amazing ability to inhabit the subject, and thus not only cause us to appreciate the art Streep, but also feel at least a little love affection for an older woman is no longer in power.

Phyllida Lloyd, who led Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!, Taking lackluster tactics in the film biography of a sudden pain. In the script, written by Abi Morgan's Shame, Lloyd describes the elderly Dame Thatcher (Streep in a thoroughly convincing performance) as a weak figure to repeat the key moments in his life while his mind is still functioning. Trajectory starts with a grocery store Alfred Roberts (Iain Glen Abbey Downton), who became mayor of Grantham, instilled in his daughter, Margaret (Alexandra Roach), passion for politics. After graduating from Oxford, he felt ready to enter the fray, at which point he met Denis Thatcher (Harry Lloyd), who cheered him along the road from Parliament to 10 Downing Street, where they lived during his time as England's first female prime minister (Jim Denis Broadbent described the gray-haired and ghosts). Temporary closure, avoiding IRA hit, and keep an eye on the war, the blue-clad titan to build alliances with Airey Neave (Nicholas Farrell) and Geoffrey Howe (Anthony Head), but he will lose them both. If he will be very strong, he had no time for niceties such as conciliation and forgiveness feminine. The film goes on to show that he has never cultivated a friendship kind of woman who might have supported him in retirement, although his daughter (Olivia Colman tyrannosaur) did what he could. In contrast, Denis still trust him until his departure, after which he had nothing but memories fade. The result is an uncomfortable combination of admiration for the qualities of leadership and its disappointment in interpersonal skills. - Kathleen C. Fennessy

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