“My first thought upon walking out of “I, Tonya,” the recently-released indie film starring Margot Robbie as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, was: Tonya was wronged. My second thought was that “I, Tonya” is the greatest sports film I’ve ever seen.
“Most sports films, even the classics, have two things in common: They’re about men and they buy uncritically into the romantic narrative about the athlete’s journey to find himself through the struggle toward greatness.
“”I, Tonya” breaks the mold, not just by telling the story of the story of failure and loss, but by grappling with the role that gender and sexism played in ruining a woman who may at one time have been the greatest figure skater in the world at.”
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