Push, Push, Push again

Damaris 2022-03-23 09:02:01

As a strong-armed leader, her womanhood can be a big hindrance to the practice of this character and style of conduct. Women in a patriarchal society are always given certain patterns. The sarcastic words of the MPs, 'be a mother', are also mentioned many times in the film, which, for feminists, is enough to provoke them to spit on these chauvinistic pigs. An extremist like me just wanted to rush up and beat him up.

——Well, in fact, when I wrote this film review, I didn’t do my homework about this great lady, and I didn’t verify the position of the film or the gap between it and the truth, but I wrote some very personal feelings based on my simple understanding.

Mrs Thatcher is indeed a savage demeanor. She has gone all the way to the position of Prime Minister, which is not unrelated to her always tough style. If she had ever acted a little like a mild woman—as the environment meant her to be compromising, secure, and honest as a housewife, she wouldn't have gone so far in British politics of that era. It is because of his very push character that he can open up a world where women are in power.

She won the Falklands War, and the people's emotions rose and their support rose, as if for a moment she was really the representative of every citizen, she spoke for them, represented their interests, and she was their trusted prime minister.

When the economy is in a mess, there are strikes, marches, demonstrations, and then everyone puts the blame on her, it's all the government's fault, it's all her fault. ——So after using it, I discarded it without thinking. As Thatcher said in the movie: We only feel, not think. We only remember our feelings, purely intuitive, without processing and thinking, and we act and react accordingly.
The public will never think about whether I have any responsibility here, and whether there is anything I haven't done well. Politicians will never think about whether this is my problem or whether it is a problem with our policies. Everyone can pass the buck, then a female prime minister is a woman who never shows weakness, and the responsibility is pushed to her - because she does not compromise, she does not back down, she is not a woman or a mother in the general sense. ; She is too strong and special, and the group will not accommodate her. - This is a victim of resistance to universal values. She has ambition and the willpower to achieve it, but ambition is often aggressive and aggressive, which leads to a lot of adversaries. ——So in the end, she was successfully pushed to the stage and pulled down by the same group of people.


PS: From a bystander's point of view, if the British people really have more people with such a push character, maybe the current British economy will not be in a weak depression and recession for such a long time.

PS: The film itself is very fragmented. Well, I don’t know how to describe this feeling. It’s a piecemeal feeling with unclear lines~ The director’s skills need to be improved, and the excavation of characters and backgrounds can be further deepened—— This film seems to deliberately make Thatcher an ordinary person, not a female prime minister. The director seems to want to say, this is not a celebrity biopic, this is a memoir of a tough woman, or even a diary of her later years.

But like everyone commented, for Aunt May's superb performance, this movie is still well worth watching.

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The Iron Lady quotes

  • Margaret Thatcher: We will stand on principle... or we will not stand at all.

  • Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great back into Great Britain!