Guest Blogger: Elias M1

The Iron lady is an intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the UK, she won three successive General Elections and she served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century. During her service, she improved every aspect of the British politics, reforming outdated institutions, reinvigorating the economy and the nation’s foreign policy. Margaret Thatcher was one of the world's most influential and respected political leaders, a controversial, dynamic and plain-spoken leader. Critics and supporters alike recognize the Thatcher premiership as a period of fundamental importance in British history. If the movie would tell the story about Margaret’s youth, the political rise, the government and the subsequent decline, it would probably become a tedious job. But they did different, They had the idea of starting from today, to represent an elderly woman, and only affected by the ghosts of the past that haunt her, was a mistake. The dramatic construction of the story then follows the unconscious mental processes and oppressive character, rather than put on stage the actions following the chronology of events: the script by Abi Morgan - screenwriter of "Shame" - is built with intelligence and personality paints a complex and ambiguous as that of Thatcher with adequate sensitivity. Obviously the score narrative is facilitated by the great performances of Meryl Streep, an actress who never exceeds in unnecessary emphasis, indeed, though he works in subtraction to excel both in the emotional force that mimics the role. The biggest flaw of "The Iron Lady" is, however, the staging, which does not have a precise ordered line, but is fascinated by too many visual enchantments. Phyllida Lloyd changes register each time that the film moves up or down, building scenes also effective when taken alone but they do not build a film coherent and compact. The unpleasant impression is like they put together a puzzle without knowing what you wanted to find once stuck the tiles.