You don't like anything I say, ever. I mean let's just cut to the chase: you are weirdly obsessed with me. You follow me around on just about every thread that I participate on for the sole purpose of raising objections that defy comprehension to anything and everything that I say (such as here) and are never satisfied with any answer or clarification that I might provide. To that end, I have long since abandoned efforts to communicate with you, save for right now because you don't seem to be getting the hint.

Let me be very clear: I don't want you to trail me everywhere I go for whatever weird satisfaction it gives you to pointlessly pester me constantly. It's annoying and a waste of my day. Is that clear enough for you to leave me be unless and until you have a legitimate, good-faith contribution to offer?

lol i'm replying to a thread that came up in the recent topics section... I read the op and gave my opinion on it 

i'm not following you around or anything like that... I suppose we just happen to be more likely to post in certain threads

" until you have a legitimate, good-faith contribution to offer?"

already gave one in my post... its not in bad faith simply because you disagree with it

You express confusion about whether Tonya Harding should be labeled a protagonist or an antagonist. You're not supposed to necessarily label her either way, but rather just human. Hence the relativist implication of the title's cultural reference.

Incidentally you're wrong: she has formally apologized to Nancy Kerrigan to her face on national television in 1998. It was awkward and a little disingenuous, being as she never admitted, even in her formal apology, to any role in the planning of the attack (just to knowing it was to happen and failing to report that knowledge), but still, it is more than you're acknowledging here.

My opinion in that you're right: she is really only sorry that she got caught (to the extent that she did). There's nothing justifiable about that. But you seem very fixated on whether or not the attack was right or wrong when that's just not the point of the film. The point of the film is that Tonya Harding is not this one-dimensional caricature we grew up hearing about.

For me, the shortcomings of this movie are not thematic, but technical. Were it all up to me, I'd have preferred a delivery that featured more subtlety here and there, perhaps more often approximately recreating intimate and emotionally nuanced conversations more often rather than fixating almost exclusively on the most dramatic events. Fixating on dramatic events more than building up to them is something I find that male directors often do and I feel that it usually removes some of their emotional heft. Despite what I feel are its limits though, Craig Gillespie's direction ultimately proved to be more effective than I at first thought. When some of the most defining moments arrived late the movie, it suddenly hit me how emotionally invested I had become in Tonya Harding's fate without even previously realizing it!

There is a point late in the film wherein Margot Robbie, in her role as Tonya Harding, condemns the audience at some length. That moment concentrated the essential point of the movie: that her whole life was basically one gigantic abusive relationship, first with individuals and then with the world. That moment was genius! I felt the weight of it, realizing that indeed that has to be how Harding feels about her life. That's something that not many filmmakers would have done and it made me appreciate the sincerity of Gillespie's effort. I gather that you didn't appreciate it much. Maybe one has to have been through such a relationship to be able to fully import the pain contained therein.

Another example comes just before the credits roll when we discover that Harding has become a boxer and has indeed been doing any and every ridiculous, degrading thing possible to sustain public interest in her since being banned for life from professional figure skating, possessing not even a high school degree. In this moment, she reflects on her life and articulates what for her is the necessary belief that "there's no truth" and that "my whole life is violence anyway". This was another moment when I began to realize how much the movie had affected my outlook without realizing it up to that point because I felt the weight of those words coming, believably, from her, reflecting the psychological toll that had been taken on her: the sense of paranoia and masochism. And then she gets knocked down and stays down a while while the music drops, almost like she might understandably just die then and there and have that be the end before finally regaining her normal, bitchy resolve to truck on, come what may. And then the credits begin to roll as a female-voiced rendition of Iggy Pop's grunge song (one I remember very nostalgically) The Passenger begins to play to images of her skating and that's when it all really hit me. I actually cried. I hadn't come to feel that "the incident", as it's referred to, was okay or anything (the movie hadn't intended for me to either), but I hadn't realized up to that point who Tonya Harding actually was and now I did and yeah, felt kind of sorry for her. I don't think it's wrong to have that complex feeling, is it? I mean it's the whole point of the movie really.

That's the wisdom of Gillespie's direction here: it's impact sneaks up on you. I would score I, Tonya a solid 8/10, personally.

It was a pretty good movie. I wouldn't have gone out of my way to watch it had it not been available on my 8 hour flight back from Japan, though. It was quite funny and the performances really were quite impressive - especially, obviously, Margot and Allison Janney.

The real story is definitely well, fucking crazy. It seems like something that would only happen in a movie.

I absolutely loved it and thought Margot Robbie really nailed it as Tonya.

Making it a dark comedy and acknowledging how awful everyone involved and their circustances were, as well as not shying away from the fact that everybody still gives wildly variying accounts as to what really happened, was the best way they could have gone with it imo.

You can't help but walk away with a grudging respect for Tonyas toughness. I'm happy they highlighted how unfairly she was treated because of her background as well as her athletic scating style, while still showing that, while a product of her circumstances, she's also an awful person.