• Who Is Meryl Streep’s Margaret Thatcher For, Exactly? 
Richard Lawson, AtlanticWire For those obsessed with the Oscar race, like Academy members, the politics of the film don’t really matter all that much. Sure liberal politics don’t hurt -- look at all the nominations that Brokeback Mountain got (if you can call a movie that depicts a deep, tragic love with dignity “liberal,” which you depressingly can these days) -- but really, in this movie’s case especially, if there’s a powerhouse like Meryl Streep involved and there are British accents and big speeches and all that, whether or not Margaret Thatcher was some kind of Ayn Randian bootstrapper doesn’t really matter.   Published: 2011-11-14