06 September 2012
Film"The Iron Lady" Mrs. Thatcher was indeed Iron lady
Biopic of former British prime minister, the only female PM in British history. Maybe she was as notable as Queen Elizabeth in pre-modern time.
She was born in a family of grocery. Her father was local mayor. She studied in Oxford.
She lived through 2nd world war, and struggled with male dominated society.
After she became prime minister, she won the war with Argentine over terriroritorital sovereignty in South Atlantic sea. At that time US was not very supportive, rather Reagan proposed peace pact with Argentine. That taught us what would happen if similar thing happens between China and Japan.
At that time, Thatcher told the U.S., what did you do when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour? Did you abondon Hawaii because it was so far away and not many people lived there? Did you propose peace pact to Tojo?
She was once about to be assassinated by IRA but survived.
This film described her being woman did not matter to what she did. She had capability of what she wants to do.
Recently I asked some British people about their reputation of Mrs. Thatcher. Surprisingly they did not like her very much. Is it because of her neo-liberal policy? She cut budget spending and privatised national businesses.
Whether that resulted in a good way or not, she had done those things with her firm determination.
Why we never had such a strong leader in our country's politics!