A great surprise how excellent this film is!

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2018)

I was in college when this whole thing was happening, which means I only heard the headlines but never had time to digest the story. I believed the conventional wisdom that made most people dislike Tanya Harding. I was looking forward to seeing this movie just to get a new perspective of things that I was too young to pay close attention to, so I was expecting to like the movie for it's historical review. However, I was blown away as to how well acted, written, directed, edited, and produced this movie was, and it is certainly the best movie I've seen in years, if not a decade.
The acting and characterizations of the people involved in this story is possibly the best I've ever seen. I think every single person in this movie deserves some sort of Oscar nod. In the closing credits they show the real people that the actors were portraying, and you will be amazed at the likeness each actor was able to convey. Amazing.
I was a little worried that the story may be a bit boring about what appeared to be a fairly two dimensional event, but I was totally sucked in and enjoying every morsel of gourmet movie "food", and it never stopped delivering. You'll laugh out loud right from the beginning of the film, sometimes uncomfortably so, as this story is much more bizarre than I ever thought possible. The writing, directing, and editing of this film will reward you with a new experience in movie watching. This was truly groundbreaking in it's artistry and delivery.
I won't conclude by telling you how you will see this event at the end of the movie , but suffice to say anyone that has a critical thinking mind will change their view about Tonya Harding and the "Nancy Kerrigan event" at least a few times while watching this film. You will be brought to the sad conclusion that no matter how guilty or not guilty that you feel Tonya is in the end, that the news media loves the headline and the sound bite too much but never cares to "right" the story once they've made money with the headline, leaving millions of people with hatred for things that may have never happened. This is a must see film, if only to adjust our national conscious and to correct the black and white feelings that media leaves us to deal with. If anything, this film will leave you filled with empathy and a renewed perspective of understanding of Tonya Harding, and perhaps a new mistrust of blind conventional wisdom.