The Iron Lady is a biographical British - French film about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed by Meryl Streep. Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher, is portrayed by Jim Broadbent, and Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet member and eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, is portrayed by Anthony Head.

The Iron Lady film peeks into the historic life and the deeds of a former Prime Minister of United Kingdom. The story talks about the existence of Margaret Thatcher, her struggles, and the cost she had to bear in lieu of the power bestowed thereafter. What all she had to face while surfacing a desired destiny for her has been remarkably narrated in the film. The surmounted hurdles do prove to be the consolidated examples of the supremacy and determination that the lady had. Striving to make her own mark, fighting the pools of daunting instances, Margaret continued to thrive, shaking and breaking societal barriers based on futile conceptions. In life, you have to earn every single dream of yours, and that has never been a child's play.

You have to have that zeal, buoyancy, and an astuteness to come out as an exultant individual, and Margaret seemed to have that all! The film takes its viewers into flashbacks, and on the trodden paths of the supreme lady. Representing the attempts of Margaret since the onset of her vigorous quest, the film wobbles the souls of many who pitch their hearts into her glorious past.

The story goes on in a narrative way in which the various events involving Margaret Thatcher, were shown. With a series of flashbacks the story shows those 17 days which lead to the Falkland War in 1982. The story is about the life of Margaret Thatcher, who was the first and the only lady prime minister of United Kingdom and had a unique personality. She could break the barrier of the gender biased society and became the most influential political person in the century. The story shows how she had to take pressures in her personal and professional life both.

One of the things I really liked about the film was the fact that the central character was an old woman. Only few films have protagonists even in mid-life that it was really refreshing and interesting to see one in deep old age. One of the things I've been thinking a lot about in the last couple of years is how people can be enabled to better imagine their own aging and eventual old age. Fictional portrayals of later life are an obvious way of helping with this but there aren't many out there. While I loathed the real Margaret Thatcher in her heyday with all the fervor of a leftie teenager and young adult, I found the fictional portrayal of her old age deeply moving and sympathetic.

I was also interested in the way the film ended up focusing so much on her personal life, especially her relationships with her father, husband and children. I am suspicious that one of the reasons the film-makers decided to do this was because if they had failed to do this for a woman who was known to have been married and to have had children, it would have felt like too incomplete an account of her life. Filming a biography of a male public figure with only passing reference to his private life would probably be unremarkable but, since they wanted to make her at least somewhat sympathetic.