I, Tonya

[Auroranorth]

Jan 12, 2018 2:01:19 GMT -4 kostgard said:

Look who just finally admitted to having prior knowledge of the attack before it happened.

She said she overheard Jeff talking about taking a skater out, but didn’t put two-and-two together until a few days after the attack (and, apparently, still didn’t call the police).

I think she’s still underplaying what she knew before the attack, but she’s inching closer to the truth.

Wow. Just-wow.

[Ripley]

She is as dumb as a rock, isn’t she?

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I swear, all it would take is Nancy Kerrigan to give one interview and she will lose her shit again. Nancy wouldn't even have to say anything negative about Tonya, just her having the spotlight again would be enough. I don't know if Nancy would do that though, so far all she has said is she hasn't seen the movie.

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I bit the bullet and saw the movie. I didn’t think it was possible, but I actually hate her more now. The snow job she pulled on the filmmakers to get such a sympathetic portrayal must’ve been epic.

[Ginger]

A sports writer for The Oregonian who covered Tonya in the 80s and 90s is not happy with how the film changes facts to be sympathetic to Tonya. I, Nauseated

the movie asserts that Harding and Jeff Gillooly knew nothing about the planned attack other than it might involve some threatening letters. The blame is all put on hapless “bodyguard” Shawn Eckhardt, who, in actual life, is conveniently dead.

In reality, that bleak January 1994 Jeff Gillooly told the FBI that planning for the attack included discussions of killing Kerrigan, or cutting her Achilles’ tendon, before settling for breaking her landing leg and leaving her injured wearing a duct-tape gag in her hotel room — and that Tonya Harding was well in on the plans and impatient when Kerrigan wasn’t disabled right away. (Makes Tonya a tad less sympathetic, no?)

I guess the letters thing is how Tonya is currently explaining her handwritten paper where she wrote down information about Nancy's training rink and her practice schedule.

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Thanks for that link, I didn’t know some of that information before. And the author was right on how the movie portrays Nancy as a clownish character. She is the only real victim in this scenario.

I’m going to have to mute my TV if Allison Janney wins the Oscar. She’s definitely gone down a few points in my book.

[forever1267]

I don't see a clownish character in the movie. Nancy Kerrigan is barely portrayed in the movie. The movie does sympathize with Harding, but I thought it also entirely proved that she is really good at playing victim with no sense of her responsibility in both the event and her life in general.

[Binky]

I agree, Nancy Kerrigan is barely portrayed in the movie. The clownishness is entirely Tonya's reaction to Kerrigan (throughout time).

I do think the movie sanitizes Tonya quite a bit, but it still makes her look like a lunatic. It also turns all the domestic abuse she suffered (which I do believe happened) into something of a punchline rather than awful trauma. I'm not sure it evens out, but there is sanitizing happening both to her and at her.

[luminosa]

I'm just finishing it right now and...while I feel for her because of the abuse she suffered (I had no idea because I was very young at the time of her popularity and subsequent "incident"), I do think that movie tries to make her much more of an innocent than she was/is.

I don't love this movie...
It reminded me of a poor poor poor man's To Die For.
Also, maybe an unpopular opinion, but now having seen this and Ladybird, I think Laurie Metcalf should have won over Allison Janney (and I adore Allison Janney).

[Karrit]

Mar 15, 2018 17:11:20 GMT -4 luminosa said:

Also, maybe an unpopular opinion, but now having seen this and Ladybird, I think Laurie Metcalf should have won over Allison Janney (and I adore Allison Janney).

I totally agree with you.