By Triple Axel or Crowbar, ‘I, Tonya’ Is One of the Best Films of the Year

I, Tonya is the best film you will see in 2017, a new age docudrama that reveals the truth by taking you down an unbelievable rabbit hole of truths. It’s a rockstar film and Margot Robbie gives an unbelievable performance – she is sure to be nominated for that golden statue, if not win. At this point I feel the only person that could knock her out would be Streep – cuz who beats Streep? Margot Robbie plays the unstoppable Tonya Harding in her road to stardom and her inevitable fall from…well not so grace. We all remember the incident, and the movie regards it as such. It’s one of those stories you will never forget but because of modern media everyone remembers it differently. I remember that Tonya Harding was the Olympic skater who had her boyfriend bash in Nancy Kerrigan’s knees because she was her greatest competition for the gold. I was enthralled with the story – the drama, the gutter instinct of it all! And this movie makes us question what we thought we knew about Tonya and what led to that unspeakable act in the best possible way.

I, Tonya is executed with superb storytelling. Director Craig Gillespie and Writer Steven Rogers were able to do justice to each person’s viewpoint leaving you with not exactly the truth, but the information necessary to understand the situation in a light you never would have thought. It’s almost like the creators set out to make a real documentary and as they began to hear each person’s side of the story, it was undoubtedly apparent the…