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I saw I, Tonya with dude at the fancy theater. It was brilliant.
I sobbed out loud at nearly the last line in the closing montage, where it says Tonya Harding is now married with a 7-year-old child. “She wants everyone to know she is a good mother.”
What a movie.
I guess I’ll cut to discuss it, in case anyone doesn’t want to be, I dunno, it’s not like there are spoilers– I mean, I remember it happening pretty vividly in real time, I was 12– but.
Walking out, Dude said, “I definitely had the thought right in the middle that I’d be enjoying this a lot more if it wasn’t real,” after me talking about the violence– it’s not extremely violent, but there’s a lot of it, and it’s extremely realistic. You know how in movies punches are like, big, and people react hugely, and sometimes it’s slowed down?
No. Tonya gets popped in the nose and her head smacks the window behind her and she stares in shock for a second and her nose starts bleeding and it’s– that’s it– and then she looks at the camera and says “That’s when I knew,” to you, the audience–
It’s just. It’s paced very realistically, and then told very stylistically.
It’s intercut fake interviews with much-later (like, I think it’s supposed to be now) Jeff and Tonya, and then realistic as-it-happened stuff, but occasionally during the real action Tonya looks at the camera and talks to the audience. I don’t think any other characters do. I think it’s just her.
The skating is amazing. I mean, they must have used a double and CGI, I don’t know, because they so clearly showed this whole montage of Tonya landing triple axels, as portrayed by Margot Robbie, who I know is very athletic but there’s no way she can really land a dozen different triple axels? Oh I looked it up, and just closed the window without copying the link, d’oh, but yes. She had two different skating doubles, and neither of them could land a triple either. So the whole thing was spliced together out of all kinds of footage and such. (They tried shooting it with a wire but that didn’t look right, as I imagine it wouldn’t.) It still looks pretty amazing! (And apparently any time Tonya was gliding forward, backward, or stopping, that was all Margot, she got that decent at skating. Huh!)
They closed it out in the credits with real footage, and I like, went back mentally in time, which was fucked-up. But I was starting to get transported back by the Olympics scene where Tonya’s skate lace breaks. I remember watching that in realtime, I remember watching her break down, I remember thinking wait can she do-over??? and I remember that I was, actually, sort of rooting for her. I was 11, actually, and already taller than her, as it happens. I didn’t know that at the time, of course. (I was five feet six by age 13.)
Two closing things, I guess. One, Allison Janney, holy shit, what a character. I was sure that had to be, like, a whole pastiche of something, and then they had a clip of Tonya’s real mother with the fucking coat and the fucking parrot and jesus fucking christ. Two: The last scene as Jeff Gilooly, played by Stan, comes out into his living room and watches the news crews packing up their shit and leaving, and on TV, it’s OJ Simpson and the goddamn glove. Oh my god.
I was never allowed much TV as a kid, so whenever it was on I was always glued to it. But I remember OJ Simpson, and for the first time ever in my life, asking my mother, “Can’t you turn that off?”
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I saw I, Tonya with dude at the fancy theater. It was brilliant.
I sobbed out loud at nearly the last line in the closing montage, where it says Tonya Harding is now married with a 7-year-old child. “She wants everyone to know she is a good mother.”
What a movie.
I guess I’ll cut to discuss it, in case anyone doesn’t want to be, I dunno, it’s not like there are spoilers– I mean, I remember it happening pretty vividly in real time, I was 12– but.
Walking out, Dude said, “I definitely had the thought right in the middle that I’d be enjoying this a lot more if it wasn’t real,” after me talking about the violence– it’s not extremely violent, but there’s a lot of it, and it’s extremely realistic. You know how in movies punches are like, big, and people react hugely, and sometimes it’s slowed down?
No. Tonya gets popped in the nose and her head smacks the window behind her and she stares in shock for a second and her nose starts bleeding and it’s– that’s it– and then she looks at the camera and says “That’s when I knew,” to you, the audience–
It’s just. It’s paced very realistically, and then told very stylistically.
It’s intercut fake interviews with much-later (like, I think it’s supposed to be now) Jeff and Tonya, and then realistic as-it-happened stuff, but occasionally during the real action Tonya looks at the camera and talks to the audience. I don’t think any other characters do. I think it’s just her.
The skating is amazing. I mean, they must have used a double and CGI, I don’t know, because they so clearly showed this whole montage of Tonya landing triple axels, as portrayed by Margot Robbie, who I know is very athletic but there’s no way she can really land a dozen different triple axels? Oh I looked it up, and just closed the window without copying the link, d’oh, but yes. She had two different skating doubles, and neither of them could land a triple either. So the whole thing was spliced together out of all kinds of footage and such. (They tried shooting it with a wire but that didn’t look right, as I imagine it wouldn’t.) It still looks pretty amazing! (And apparently any time Tonya was gliding forward, backward, or stopping, that was all Margot, she got that decent at skating. Huh!)
They closed it out in the credits with real footage, and I like, went back mentally in time, which was fucked-up. But I was starting to get transported back by the Olympics scene where Tonya’s skate lace breaks. I remember watching that in realtime, I remember watching her break down, I remember thinking wait can she do-over??? and I remember that I was, actually, sort of rooting for her. I was 11, actually, and already taller than her, as it happens. I didn’t know that at the time, of course. (I was five feet six by age 13.)
Two closing things, I guess. One, Allison Janney, holy shit, what a character. I was sure that had to be, like, a whole pastiche of something, and then they had a clip of Tonya’s real mother with the fucking coat and the fucking parrot and jesus fucking christ. Two: The last scene as Jeff Gilooly, played by Stan, comes out into his living room and watches the news crews packing up their shit and leaving, and on TV, it’s OJ Simpson and the goddamn glove. Oh my god.
I was never allowed much TV as a kid, so whenever it was on I was always glued to it. But I remember OJ Simpson, and for the first time ever in my life, asking my mother, “Can’t you turn that off?”
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