I’ve watched it. It wasn’t the hatched job you might think it was. It was pretty balanced in my view.
Actually it WAS a hatchet job from the leftist viewpoint -
It showed her as unbending, uncompromising, unwilling to give an inch conservative leader.
Which of course are all mortal sins to liberal idiots.
I on the other hand was screaming with delight. The only sad part that I saw was that we (conservatives) apparently have no current leaders that are unbending, uncompromising and unwilling to give an inch.
Sigh.
Whatever one’s feelings about Lady Thatcher’s legacy, The Iron Lady is a disgraceful film. You do not have to support her politics to defend her right to privacy in old age. She deserves to be treated with as much dignity as anyone else. This is precisely what the film, in depicting her in the grip of dementia while she is still alive, fails to do.
I do not know how impaired Lady Thatcher is, if she really hallucinates and sees her dead husband or has ever slipped past her minders to wander aimlessly to the shops, confused and alone. But I do hope she never sees this film or reads the reviews. No wonder her children, Mark and Carol, refused to attend private screenings.
Some other comments:
Cynthia Crawford, who worked for Lady Thatcher throughout her Downing Street tenure, said some scenes in the £10million film were ‘totally unrelated to the truth’.
She attacked the decision to release the film during the 86-year-old former prime minister’s lifetime as ‘beyond the boundaries’.Mrs Crawford, 74, said: ‘The dementia scenes are disproportionate to her life and her business and her being prime minister, I think that’s really very sad – Lady Thatcher’s policy was you look forward and you don’t look back.
‘If they had made the film about the 11-and-a-half years of her life as prime minister it could have been absolutely fantastic.’
She praised scenes depicting her career, including her role in the Falklands and the miners’ strike, saying: ‘I thought those were done well but the dementia scenes were not.’ She added: ‘I can assure you that all the domestic scenes in the film are just absolutely inconceivable. They’re just not right and totally unrelated to the truth.’
Mrs Crawford said: ‘To produce this in Lady Thatcher’s lifetime is beyond the boundaries and very cruel, but it is only a film, which will soon be forgotten. Her name and her legacy will forever be mentioned in the history of Great Britain.’
We watched it, knowing her real story, having heard her speak live once, my wife was so furious she almost went all Taliban on our TV.
The movie dissed her for not taking care of her children. The movie never showed her truly great accomplishments, simply left them hanging as if she never did anything great other than be elected. It never addressed how the economy rebounded as a result of her pro free enterprise policies, never addressed her part in taking down the wall of communism and her steel will in understanding how to be a part of bringing down the evil empire, never addressed the cultural revival that happened for a way too short a time under her hand.
But it did show how she was a poor mother, and wife. If you think that was fair and balanced, contact me about this New York bridge I have for sale......
Sorry, it was worse than a hatchet job.