Iron Deficiency

The Iron Lady frames its portrait of this grocer?s daughter from Grantham by showing us Thatcher as an old woman, long out of office (she stepped down in 1990 after 10? years as prime minister) already exhibiting the early signs of Alzheimer?s (the real-life Thatcher, still living, is now in the later stages of the disease).* It?s not that showing a character?s decline into dementia on-screen is, in itself, degrading?Iris and Away From Her are two films that have risen impressively to the task. But there?s something cruelly diminishing about the way this movie returns insistently to the scene of a confused, disheveled Thatcher wandering her empty house in a pastel housecoat. Yes, it?s awful that senility can reduce even an imperious leader like Thatcher to a frail, dependent being, but there?s a lack of specificity to these scenes that threatens to reduce the historical Thatcher to a generic old lady. The film?s chief means of building empathy for its sometimes off-putting heroine is to cut away from her years as a player on the world stage back to her lonely waning days?a strategy that, by the third or fourth time it?s used, starts to feel both manipulative and lazy.

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