Another case of Organizational Abuse

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2018)

This movie was hard to watch. The violence and spousal abuse was visceral and graphic. The characters were superbly acted and delightfully real with all of their character flaws displayed in neon lights. Margot Robbie was wonderful and award worthy. It should not matter in sports what side of the tracks you come from, but the movie made abundantly clear that in figure skating, it does. The film was a beautiful indictment of spousal and institutional abuse and so aptly timed to the current Olympics and national spousal abuse scandals of our day. Tonya Harding was an abused kid who rose to the top of her sport only to be abused again by the people and institutions she loved. A 1990's morality play with painful truths for 2018 .