Typical American

Cassandre 2022-12-28 21:44:32

typical, stupid American.

(But this is probably only the Americans who say it themselves.)

When I saw the title of this movie, I really thought it was a middle school American youth film, but it turned out to be American Cruel Story.

In the form of documentaries and interviews, I thought I was watching Woody Allen's Chameleon, the classic American Dream Breaking series. Thinking of the heavily criticized Oscar with its political implications, we're still a long way off.

To be deprived of liberty by something called liberty is really a strange proposition, but there is such a sense of absurd realism in this film. The diabolical mother, the abusive husband, the stupid dead fat man and the criminal, the public who loves you one second and hates you the next, the fbi who doesn't keep their promises, the reporter who drives away from your door chasing the next news, white Lotus Nancy, "What we want is a happy figure skater who can represent the United States!" Judge, under these things, Tanya's three and a half weeks seem insignificant, as if she was wasting her whole life, which is too sad and too ironic

Perhaps it is in this huge freedom bubble that it is sad to see such a character. She really believed in it all, like anyone involved, but all her fantasies about family, love, skating were shattered, and she told her little by little, come on, don't trust anybody.

I really think the director is very ruthless, when the tape recorder from my mother's pocket is taken out, when jeff goes to the radio to watch tanya's performance just for a huge amount of money, when everyone cheers for the beaten tanya, as they cheered for her three and a half weeks , she also stood up and continued to be beaten.

The inspiration at the end turned into irony, beat it harder , because there was no way to go.

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I, Tonya quotes

  • FBI Agent #1: It's just a formality. We're talking to everyone.

    Tonya: We don't know anything.

    FBI Agent #2: That must make life difficult.

  • [last lines]

    Tonya: [narrating] I was the second most known person, behind Bill Clinton, in the world. That meant something. People still wanted to see me. So I became a lady boxer. I mean, why not? Violence was always what I knew anyway. America, you know, they want someone to love - but they want someone to hate. And they want it easy. But what's easy?

    Tonya: The haters always say, "Tonya, just tell the truth." But there's no such thing as truth. It's bullshit. Everyone has their own truth. And life just does whatever the fuck it wants.

    Tonya: That's the story of my life... . And that's the fucking truth!