One Film, and All of My Old Prejudices About 'Evil' Maggie Went Out! Out! Out! [Eire Region]

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THE Iron Lady is a very beautiful movie and Meryl Streep, while not a pitch-perfect Mrs T impersonator, creates a deeply believable character who draws you into the emotional drama of her extraordinary force-of-nature personality. I expected many things from the movie, but not to be brought to tears, which I was.

There are several paradoxes here, not least that Thatcher herself was a creature of thought and action over feeling and emotion. 'Ask me what I am thinking,' she would say. Not about what she might be feeling.

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One Film, and All of My Old Prejudices About 'Evil' Maggie Went Out! Out! Out! [Eire Region]

Another, more personal, paradox is that, like many Irish people, I had for many years an almost irrational antipathy towards Margaret Thatcher. Since her retirement from politics in 1991, I have gradually come to see this aversion as being based on a misunderstanding of her personality. Back in the late 1970s when she came to power, it was fashionable for young...

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