article_snippet.sent: Needless to say, an evil dictator is Margaret Thatcher.
article_snippet.sent: Perhaps the most glaring omission from such Left-wing propaganda movies is any concession that the policies of Margaret Thatcher were a necessary corrective to the chaos and pessimism of the Seventies.
article_snippet.sent: The fact is that Margaret Thatcher government inherited a country on the brink of political and economic collapse and restored a country to rude good health, able to hold a country head up high again in the world.
article_snippet.sent: Inevitably, the period before Margaret Thatcher is depicted as a golden age, a pastoral idyll straight out of a Hovis commercial, while the Britain Margaret Thatcher left behind is portrayed as a money-grubbing spiritual wasteland.
article_snippet.sent: The only exception to this disgraceful series of truth-twisting films was The Iron Lady, in which Britain’s first female Prime Minister was shown in a more nuanced light, almost in spite of its makers’ Left-wing instincts.
article_snippet.sent: It is broadly unsympathetic — there are plenty of scenes in which Baroness Thatcher is seen to be suffering from dementia, which suggests an element of hostility — but actress Meryl Streep brings such depth and humanity to the lead role that Baroness Thatcher emerges as a more complex figure than the bogeyman of Left-wing mythology.
article_snippet.sent: Not surprisingly, The Iron Lady was condemned by many in the British film establishment for being ‘shallow’ and ‘superficial’, an example of ‘self-important’ film-making.
article_snippet.sent: No doubt if it had depicted Baroness Thatcher as a cruel monster, the same critics would have acclaimed it an out-and-out masterpiece.
article_snippet.sent: The Iron Lady was condemned by many in the British film establishment for being ‘shallow’ and ‘superficial’, an example of ‘self-important’ film-making .