Today's film was The Iron Lady (2011) which is based around the life of Margret Thatcher. The film stars the amazing Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent. I felt that the casting was extremely well done, as I know a lot of people would get annoyed by an American actress playing one of Britain's and female's biggest role models but Streep does it with so much passion and accuracy that she might have well been Thatcher. Streep was such an amazing match to being a strong, independent leader as, like Thatcher, that is who Meryl Streep is. She can say and do things that no other actress can. She is the only woman in the world who could get away with leaving an Oscar award in the toilets after having just won it (Streep actually did that!). So I take my hat off the Meryl, she did a fantastic performance!
The film itself was very well composed and really looked inside Thatcher's thoughts and life. It retold a story that many will be familiar with from having experienced it first hand except the film gave a new light of giving the emotions behind the mask that was always on when Thatcher was in public. Not only did the film have the historical, documentary side to it through the politics but it was also about a life long love between Thatcher and her husband (Broadbent) and the grieving that she had to endure. Although it posses hope at the end and enforces the old saying of a silver lining as Thatcher, strong as ever, fights through the emotion and towards the person she wants to be.
Definitely a new favourite!
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