I, Tonya is a Masterpiece!

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2018)

I, Tonya is about American figure skater Tonya Harding and what actually happened to her. I wasn't born yet to know how much people hated Tonya, but this movie captured more than just the incident itself. The film had showed Tonya's life from when she was fifteen to somewhere in her forty's and explained who Tonya was when she wasn't on the ice. Tonya had to deal with a abusive mother, who believed that she raised Tonya the right way and formed the figure skater that Tonya is. After that she moved onto a boyfriend named Jeff who she loves at first but then again turns out to be her next abuser. The reason why Tonya had stood out from the rest of her opponents wasn't because she could do a triple axel, but because Tonya came from a lower class family. She wasn't able to afford a fur coat, or a proper costume she had to make one herself and due to this and this and Tonya's presentation of herself the judges gave her a lower score. Tonya later went to go speak with one of the judges and he explains that the competition is not all about the better skater, and the winner of the competition would become the face of the country and the girl who tells the judges to, "suck her d**k!" Isn't the ideal choice. Instead the judges wanted someone with the perfect family and life to become the face of the country. I loved the mocumentary style of the movie and how you get to see the varying viewpoints between Tonya and Jeff especially once you get to "the incident." It makes perfect sense for why anyone would believe that Tonya wacked her competitor in the knee with a pipe. Tonya is jealous of Nancy. She is jealous that she gets better scores, and she is jealous that she has a family that cares about her. This would lead you to believe that but that isn't true. Tanya gets a lot of hate for this incident but then she goes on to win first place at the Olympics after having major skate complications. The scene where she is looking in the mirror trying to smile really conveys a strong message about what is going on in Tonya's life. At this moment the whole country felt for Nancy and this was one of my favorite parts of the movie. Tanya explains Nancy's reaction when she was getting her second place medal as like she stepped in poop. Tanya then explains that Nancy has everything else but Tanya has nothing but the first place medal. The next part of the movie is Tanya's court case. This part was really emotional and I got choked up watching it. Tanya pleads her case to the judge but he bans her from ever competing in any skating competition ever again or even to coach. Tanya even says that she will take jail time over not being able to compete again. This movie cannot be summed up in any plot synopsis that you are going to read. Margot Robbie's performance in this movie is spectacular. She did most of her own skating except for the triple axel of course. The movie had a Martin Scorsese feel to it through when the broke the fourth wall. This movie was like the Goodfellas of figure skating. The parts where Tonya and Jeff were teenagers was a bit awkward. The main message that I received from this movie is that you don't know who you could trust. In the scene where Tonya's mom walks into her house and you think that they are now going to work together, we find out that she has a tape recorder on her so you still can't trust her, she couldn't trust Jeff, and she couldn't even trust her own body guard to protect her in the figurative way. This movie does something that most movies. I truly believe that Tonya is innocent and this movie stands out from most for the reason that it shows the truth behind someone that people used to hate. If you went back to the time of this case and said, "I'm going to make a movie about Tonya Harding because it think she is a hero," people would have a entirely different idea about the film. In conclusion, I think that I Tonya is a great movie and I recommend you see it soon.