I'm back!
Yesterday I went to the cinema to watch "The Iron Lady" by Phyllida Lloyd, telling the story of Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She was the leader of the conservative party. I didn't know this figure of the English politic, or I mean that I just knew her name.
Yesterday I went to the cinema to watch "The Iron Lady" by Phyllida Lloyd, telling the story of Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She was the leader of the conservative party. I didn't know this figure of the English politic, or I mean that I just knew her name.
The story is told through Margaret Thatcher's memories: the film opens on the old Iron Lady who is assisted by the housekeeper, I guess and by her daughter. So the film shows the life of a young woman who decides to make politic such as her father and who leaves her father's grocery to enter at Oxford University. She is the first woman to be sat on the rows of Parliament. The film depicts her lust for power which leads her to her own fall!
After that she always remains dignified and with her legendary authority which gives her the name of "Iron Lady".
However we discover a sick and a tired woman who thinks that her husband is still alive while he is dead... She has hallucinations and she is abandoned by her son.
After that she always remains dignified and with her legendary authority which gives her the name of "Iron Lady".
However we discover a sick and a tired woman who thinks that her husband is still alive while he is dead... She has hallucinations and she is abandoned by her son.
The main actress of this movie is Meryl Streep who is awesome! First by a wonderful transformation due to her make up, and by her capacity to embody a famous political figure who was liked and hated at the same time. She perfectly moves like Margaret Thatcher, she speaks like her, she imitates her gestures and her expressions. She is one of my favourite actress! She plays different kinds of role comic ("Mamma mia"; "Julie & Julia") or strict ("The Devil wears Prada") and tragic with the Iron Lady. (dealing with irony which sometimes leads to comic)
Now, I know why Margaret Thatcher was at the same time loved and hated by people.
[I was sat next to a blind man... yes I know, it's weird... and he seemed to love Margaret Thatcher because he always hummed the patriotic songs and sometimes he murmured a little "Yeah Maggie!"... He ate nuts, but the problem was that he had to take his nuts in a little box, so I kept a look on that box which wobbled on the shelf and quietly., I held it to avoid that nuts falled on the floor....]
[I was sat next to a blind man... yes I know, it's weird... and he seemed to love Margaret Thatcher because he always hummed the patriotic songs and sometimes he murmured a little "Yeah Maggie!"... He ate nuts, but the problem was that he had to take his nuts in a little box, so I kept a look on that box which wobbled on the shelf and quietly., I held it to avoid that nuts falled on the floor....]
So Go and Watch it !!! ****
But avoid the blind person ^^
But avoid the blind person ^^
[It's just a joke, I don't hate blind people, don't worry!]
After the "Iron Man", the "Iron Lady" !!!
[The film "the Iron Lady" is better!]
See you soon,
Love.
So back in the fog we would have said before global warming. Very interesting, especially for the blindman, since I haven't seen the movie yet. Just amazing; it reminds me of a short story from Carver, with that notable difference that your blindman is eating nuts while Carver's is chain smoking pots and watching a programme on cathedrals.
RépondreSupprimerPoor Thatcher, having forgotten everything, even senile & doddering Chirac, and being watched by a nutty blindman, that's what is called being lost in the caves of history.
Hugs,
Don Quixote
oh Dear!Was he this blind man we met at the holly bush once, so drunk that he was able to "drive" his clearsighted mate to the toilets?
RépondreSupprimeranyway, how possible eating nuts while listening to the dialogs of the film? Crunch, crunch, crunch, I can't hear anything myself while eating an apple, moreover nuts!!!
Love, my sweet lovely devil....
mum.