Scorsese on Figure Skates

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2018)

"Bash in a friends knee with a pipe? Who would do that? To a friend."
That line did not come from De Niro or Ray Liotta. It came out the mouth of Margot Robbie playing Tonya Harding in what I have down for the best movie of 2017.
Let me start by saying I actively dislike figure skating. And that's okay. Tonya Harding doesn't seem to give a sh#t about figure skating either, even though she's forced onto to the ice by her hell-beast of a mother almost just after birth.
This movie really isn't about figure skating at all. Its about the dark heart of America, with all its love and hate and violence, wrapped up in bow ties and glitter and put on for show in the Olympics every four years. Tonya was different. She was an athlete that didn't care about the BS, and what happened happened.
Margot Robbie most likely wont win the Best Actress Oscar this year. But she deserves it. And it really doesn't matter. With cinema the cream rises to the top. Finally, there exists in film a female antihero as self destructive as Travis Bickle. Watch this movie now.