Gillespie´s homerun

Rating: 9/10 (16 March 2018)

So, why is this story should care to the world?
Think about it. If you are not born in the US, do not care about Artistic Ice Skating, do not follow the Winter Olimpic Games, or you lived in a tropical country, in front of a gorgeous beach, at 30 Celsius degrees, or are too young to know, read, heard or even be interested on Tonya Harding´s news, why you should be bother to see this movie?
Here lays the success of Mr. Gillespie or, to be more accurated, of the team Gillespie-Rodgers. Yes, Rodgers throw the ball -with an screenplay almoust perfectly written, with caracters psicologically well designed, with a plot, roles and actions well fit to the reality- and Gillespie simply hit it out of the park. The Direction of this movie is memorable, combining the documentary format, with the fiction parameters, creating the perfect atmosfera to set the mind of the viewers in what is important.
When I started seeing this movie -I really watched for the casting, I must be honest- I was in an stage of "who cares this kind of tabloids storytelling", but then I realized that Rodgers and Gillespie thougth very well every scene, when to cut to real footage, when to cut to the documentary style, when to show humor, and when to show drama.
Of course the actings of the cast help them, specially Alisson Janney as Tonya´s mom -thank god I do not have a mom like her- but, as I saw it, the team Gillespie & Rodgers managed to trascend all the prejudices about the Tonyas Live and nail it in the hard task of create an story that catch every viewer in the hall...