I was pleased to read this morning that Meryl Streep had won a Golden Globe lead actor award, for her role in The Iron lady, though I still consider her to be an actress. Perhaps I'm as un-PC as Margaret Thatcher was?
We went to see the film in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago and I did think her performance was incredible. A lot of comment has of course been generated by the film and revisionist theories abound on both sides. As one who lived through the 'Winter of Discontent' and witnessed the rats running through the streets, but also the loss of life in the Falklands War I think it is, like all political theories or politicians, essential to take a balanced view.
I thought the film did this and reported on an old lady's past while really being about the ageing process and the sadness of memory loss, especially in one who had, undeniably, one of the sharpest minds in the cutlery drawer.
