I wouldn't recommend The Iron Lady.
The majority of the film is Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep, rattling around her London home, suffering from dementia and hallucinating conversations with her husband.
All the major political moments that happened during her reign are presented in flashback and montage with absolutely no drama or insight. To the point where it all becomes repetitive and predictable.
Everything is presented in montage. Seriously.
When Margaret Thatcher looks at an ornament of two soldiers in her home , I turned to my friend and said 'Are your ready for the Fawklands War montage?' Sure enough, that's what followed. It's like the screenwriter abandoned all research that would have made scenes dramatic and insightful, and instead printed her Wikipedia page, went off and filmed it. It's lazy.
When I saw the trailer for The Iron Lady, I thought it looked so campy and quotable and ridiculous. There's one scene where Margaret Thatcher totally emasculates her right hand man, which reaches the level of camp I was expecting. I wanted this movie to recall Mommie, Dearest. You know that one scene where Joan Crawford says 'Don't fuck with me fellas! This ain't my first time in the rodeo!'
(And that one ridiculous line at the end of trailer, 'Gentleman, shall we join the ladies?' Was cut out from the movie altogether.)
Alas.
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