Tonya Harding: like she really was

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2019)

I have to say this movie was really good. Getting an inside look on what really happened- it is really shocking. Tonya really loved skating-performing-everything about figure skating. She started way young, too. It was her life. Until she met and fell in love with that man that ruined it all, after having beaten up on her for so many years-Jeff Goolooly, or whatever his name was. He concocted that plan to hurt Nancy Kerrigan-he was dreaming up ideas of doing something to mess with Nancy, him along with that fat guy in the movie; while he was running around and busy meeting with the fat guy, planning, Tonya was on the ice, training for her competition. That's where she was at physically and mentally. Those guys had their own agenda. And the result of that-the incident-wound up causing the Court to ban Tonya, for life, ban her from ever competing in figure skating. Destroyed her life, the only thing that kept her sane(I believe). The scene in the courtroom when the judge delivers this horrible news- at which time Tonya gets to address the Court, is such a deeply moving scene-she's pleading to the Judge to let her keep doing the only thing she knows to do-skating-and she's crying her eyes out, just trying anything to convince the judge to NOT do this to her... it's just the saddest thing to watch. The acting is extraordinary. Totally extraordinary. This movie is an eye opener. I mean you can tell that Tonya had nothing to do with what happened to Nancy when ( in the scene after the incident-when the F.B.I. are approaching Tonya and Jeff-following them around and asking questions): Tonya is NOT freaking out, she's acting normally, even accepting a ride from the F.B.I., while Jeff is freaking out, paranoid and she's wondering what the hell- Seeing the different emotions and behaviors between the guilty-Jeff and the innocent-Tonya-really shows that she had no idea that that was going to happen. Tonya was an exceptional skater, and she wanted to be as good as she could and worked hard to be the best she could-she relied on that fact alone when she competed. She did her best skating and the triple axel and all that-she didn't want to do anything else. And that was what she did-skated her best, always, and try to win based on her abilities-She wasn't trying to win at all costs-like hurting the competition! Tonya wasn't about that-she was a FIGURE SKATER, she had a gift, she knew it, and that was what her whole being was focused on. She was on the ice doing that/ while other people had other plans-and she paid for it in the long run. Also, it sucks for Nancy, that was terrible! How sIcary and painful and horrible-something Jeff Galooly himself came up with, with another sneaky-guy, who was supposedly Tonya's security-whatever, and the two other guys who were eventually added into the plan.