Wednesday, January 4, 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/04/margaret-thatcher-state-funeral-protests

Keywords: Film, History, Nation, Genre (Bio-pic)

What would compel a person (or a nation or an industry) to make a film about a politician that "isn't political"? Is such a thing possible?

I have been a bit obsessed with the process of tracking this film's reception at opening. I admit to posting the discourse that stands furthest to the "left," politically, of any response I've seen the film garner thus far. To my reading, this column represents the rare response that goes beyond the (star) surface to attempt to locate the film's meaning and impact in the present moment. 

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