Jadis is the main antagonist in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. She is deemed to
be an extraordinary evil being and is commonly referred to as the White Witch;
she’s the one who froze Narnia in a hundred year winter. I can remember reading
somewhere that this very wicked woman allegedly appears in different forms through
out history!
Phyllida Lloyd’s, best known for the embarrassing Mamma Mia (2008), latest offering sets
out to evoke sympathy for the former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Hilda
Thatcher by allegedly showing the price she paid for power: bullshit you don’t
have to be a Baroness to suffer from dementia! Care Homes are full to the brim
with people who suffer the same non-specific illness syndrome and have never
been any where near her unique position of power.
Mimicking this ‘poor little old lady’, first seen going into
a corner shop to buy milk before walking home alone to discuss the price of
this acquisition with her ‘dead’ husband Dennis, is Meryl Streep who it must be
said deserved her many awards for this role. Although I would argue that Andrea
Riseborough played the part much better in the BBC drama The Long Walk to Finchley?
The main problem with The Iron Lady (2011) is its neither
a study of a war mongering, working class bashing, greed-encouraging politician
or the study of a horrifically restricting illness like 2008’s Away from Her; it fouls on both
counts.
Margaret Thatcher 'eyeballing' a young pretender! |
I make no apologies for paraphrasing critic Jeff Sawtell’s
comment when he opined as to why would anyone want to make a loving film about
a monster that did more harm to Britain’s industrial hinterland than Hitler’s
bombers, the Americans I hear you say?
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