RIFLE RANGE BOY

The Crown (Miniseries, S1-S4; 2016-present) Netflix I had been resisting the urge to immerse myself into another miniseries for so long. But, no thanks to DKLA's persistent persuasion and continually dangling the proverbial carrot that British history was intertwined in its storyline, I caved in. It did not disappoint but instead turned out to be quite an informative and educational one, actually. It is a sort of a history revision for me, of course, from a colonial perspective and the one which puts the British Crown above all. Throughout the who le series, the Damocles' sword that seems to be hanging over the royalties is the fear that they might be ousted at any time. The idea of a single-family, through lineage, ordained by God to rule over his subjects cannot be swallowed by the common man anymore. The nearest they can get to this by being the leader of the Church. Even then, the Crown members' behaviours were neither Christian-affirming nor exemplary for the subject t...

As far as I can remember, it has been the practice of people to respect the dead. No matter how bad a person had been in his or her lifetime, they are generally forgiven. Only the nicest things are highlighted and the not so pleasant one are conveniently forgotten or omitted in the eulogy. It is accepted that the person in question would be adequately dealt with in the afterlife by the powers above and the aid of The Book. As a deviant from the norm, people of the working class of Britain, mainly miners, have been keeping their grudge of discontent all these years and have no qualms displaying it now. Even amongst the vast majority of the 'others', there are those who feel that the world now is a worse place than before she came to the picture. With the combo of Thatcherism-Reaganism, where greed is good, we are now left with a messy world of living in credit and mortgage. I suppose the changes in the world are inevitable with or without Thatcher. Desperate situations ...

Truly a stellar performance from Meryl Streep depicting the Iron Lady Mrs Margaret Thatcher (MT) in this 2012 movie deserving a well deserved Oscar. Emotion provoking scenes of old lady reminiscing (in spite of dementia where the margin between reality and old memory is blurred) the old times that she went through in her life from a daughter of a grocer battling through playing fields of the male dominated politics and finally in her twilight of her life when others feel that she is incapable of doing anything on her own. This film is different from most biographies in that the story moves to and fro from the present to the past and back, making the makeup more and more believable. It starts with the present day aged MT shopping for milk at a grocer. She goes back to her flat, talking away and arguing with her husband Dennis. Only later we realize that Dennis is long death and gone！ The story then unfolds about the small town grocer's young daughter being accepted to Oxford, m...