This should get Meryl an Oscar easy. Even though I didn't like the movie (I know, what a shock) she's got my vote hands down. As for the make-up, definitely a win. Amazing job. They took Meryl Streep who looks like this:
and turned her into Margaret Thatcher's clone.That's pretty good but then they aged her another thirty years. I've watched Face/Off on SyFy. Age makeup is hard to make natural looking but they totally did it.
Compared to that, the rest of the movie isn't really interesting. I know who Margaret Thatcher is academically but she was out of power long before I was aware of international politics. The movie briefly hits the high points of her time as Prime Minister: the end of the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Falklands War but doesn't really dwell on them so much as it does a dotty old Margaret Thatcher reminiscing on being in power while having long conversations with her dead husband (Jim Broadbent). Seriously. The only thing I took away from the film (other than the makeup was fantastic) was that getting old sucks. It's a good thing that woman is dead or she might have sued them for libel. I wouldn't want my twilight years being paraded about interspersed with moments when I basically ruled a country. Fuck that.
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