Really made me sympathize with Tonya Harding, and root for her!

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2018)

'I, TONYA': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
A sports comedy biopic about figure skater Tonya Harding, and how she and her ex-husband were accused of hiring a man to break the leg of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan. The film stars Margot Robbie as Harding, and it costars Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Caitlin Carver and Bobby Cannavale. It was directed by Craig Gillespie (who also helmed 2007's outstanding 'LARS AND THE REAL GIRL'), and it was written by Steven Rogers. The film has received mostly positive reviews from critics, and it was also nominated for three Golden Globes; including Best Motion Picture-Comedy, Best Actress-Comedy, and Best Supporting Actress (which it won). The movie (surprisingly) really made me sympathize with Tonya Harding, and root for her.
The film follows Tonya Harding's (Robbie) figure skating career, and life, from the time she was a three-year-old girl, until the attack on Nancy Kerrigan (Carver) which ended her career. The film shows how Harding was horrendously abused, both physically and emotionally, by her mother (Janney) and her husband (Stan). She was also treated extremely unfairly by figure skating judges, and society as a whole, because of her poor upbringing and appearance. The movie also takes the perspective that Harding had no knowledge of the attack on Kerrigan before it happened.
The film actually made me feel guilty for thinking so negatively of Tonya Harding, because I always assumed that she was somewhat of a bad person. Of course the movie doesn't present her like that. It actually makes her out to be a tremendously abused, and oppressed sports hero, who at one time was the greatest figure skater in the world (which is something I didn't really know). She lost it all, of course, due to society bigotry (the film suggests). So I really found the movie to be interesting and involving, and it reminds me to always give people the benefit of the doubt (and to not jump to biased conclusions). Any film that can do all this, deserves a lot of respect in my opinion.