Iron Meryl

“Iron Lady” will be Meryl Streep’s 17th[?] Oscar nomination. Although well-deserved it leaves me thinking, “Yes, of course, but let’s give it to someone else.” The film is boring and sad. It dwells mostly on her aging and mental deterioration. The back story, her rise to power, is given a romantic touch portraying her merely as a principled firebrand of good character with a magnanimous agenda. It’s a bit of a white-wash in my opinion. The “real” story, her post-political life reveals her as something else; an imperious, elitist, ideologue who sacrificed her family and a whole lot more just to get her way. In the end I was also wondering if Meryl Streep experienced moments of abject horror when looking in the mirror, made up to look twice her age, and realized that this might be in her future.