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Kablooie

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2. Understandable if you lived through it.

Reply to truebrit71 (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 07:49 PM

Dec 2011

I only had a distant idea of what she was about.

The movie is interesting though in that she is presented as she is today, a doddering, feeble minded old lady who has hallucinations about her past.

The hallucinations become the story and they keep bringing you back to the present where she has no control over her life at all.

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Iron Lady is worth a look. I just saw a preview screening. [View all] Kablooie Dec 2011 OP

Pass. I lived through it. I don't need a Hollywood-ized version of it... truebrit71 Dec 2011 #1

Understandable if you lived through it. Kablooie Dec 2011 #2

Meryl Streep's performance? canetoad Dec 2011 #3

Amazing. Probably her next Oscar. Kablooie Dec 2011 #4

Does the movie go into how she handled the Irish Hunger Strikes in '81? whathehell Dec 2011 #5

Not really. It's just quick cliff notes summary of her primal ministery. (ministery?) Kablooie Jan 2012 #6

Okay. Thanks for that information. n/t whathehell Jan 2012 #7

..not just your opinion... truebrit71 Jan 2012 #8

Yes, I've heard that...I know she was a conservative, but what were whathehell Jan 2012 #9

She didn't try to destroy unions, she succeeded in destroying unions... truebrit71 Jan 2012 #10

Wow....I didn't know that!. whathehell Jan 2012 #11

No there are still unions in England, and they are much stronger than their US bretheren.. truebrit71 Jan 2012 #12

Streep great, movie so-so graham4anything Feb 2012 #13

Ah ha! I was right. She won. Kablooie Feb 2012 #14