The major Oscars of this year have their own advantages. But privately, my favorite is this "I, Queen of Flowers" I, Tonya, which only won the best female supporting role. This biographical movie is exactly anti-American dream. It tells a low-level born, outside the image needed by the United States, speaks on his own strength, but is suppressed by unspoken rules, and finally enters the Olympic arena, but is involved in an attack. The scandal of another figure skater, Nancy, is the story of a genius figure skater who was eventually buried by the bureaucrats, justice, media, and even ordinary people of the United States Olympic Sports Center.
Compared with Europe, Americans care too much about "success", the so-called fame and fortune, the most common path is financial and economic, or sports, entertainment and starmaking. But no matter in which field you pursue the American Dream, you must always meet the specific psychological expectations of this field. People keep talking about the need for an inclusive society, but they always set a specific expectation model for each field.
Tonya, an authentic American "red neck" (low-educated and inferior white man from the south) born in poverty, broke into a new world with her genius sports skills. However, people’s traditional psychological expectation for figure skating is ballet on ice. The athletes here often perform moves gracefully under classical music. This is not a pure sport. In addition to sports skills, it is necessary to compete for "expressiveness" or even The visual effect of Kausten (clothing). Therefore, compared with other players who have spent a lot of money, Tonya, which even has to use sewing machines to make clothing, is naturally at a disadvantage. Tonya is too innocent. She rushed to the judges and asked why she skated the best but couldn't get the corresponding scores. The judges answered in a weird tone of yin and yang. We still need to look at the performance. Maybe you don’t think of it yourself. so nice. If Tonya is a more sleek and smart person, maybe she can listen to the coach obediently, pack herself up and become another person, a tall, elegant and beautiful figure skater that meets public expectations, just like her competitor Nancy Like that. But Tonya is this straight-tempered and unpretentious Tonya. She is such a humble person, who is so unsuitable for the criteria of figure skating society, and will always be artificially eliminated in the end.
At the end of the film, a live action image of Tonya appears. It is different from the sexy and graceful dances of Kim Yuna or Mao Asada's delicate and soft dances that our generation is accustomed to. Tonya is more like a happy child dancing on the ice, completing three weeks of jumping and having fun directly. When jumping and shouting, with joy from the heart, she can feel her sincere happiness across the age and the screen. After all, for her, skating is the only thing in her life that can be truly controlled, so she is confident, happy, optimistic and enthusiastic on ice. Isn't this kind of happiness itself a kind of "expressiveness"? It's a pity that those judges who gave Tonya low marks don't have the real expectations of expressiveness in the clear rules. They don't like this crude image to represent the image of the United States. Although Tonya is a real bottom image of the United States, and her strength is enough to become the number one in figure skating at the time, it stimulated the nerves of the elite group under the unspoken rules.
In order to exaggerate the dramatic conflict, Margot Robbie is rougher than Tonya in the movie, but Tonya’s real person is softer in appearance and voice, and the action on ice is not as rigid as Margot Robbie’s performance. It's still silly with a smile. However, just like the facts, Tonya has not been seen by the authorities.
The left is the actor, the right is the real person.
Tonya is so pitiful, she has never been treated tenderly by the world. In contrast, the media portrays Nancy as a princess and treats her as shit. Nancy was attacked and there was an uproar across the United States. Tonya's beating was commonplace, but no one took it seriously. After all, the American people are still buying sports stars, especially Tonya is the first American athlete to triple jump. He won the medal and finally began to be loved by the people. Unfortunately, this national love is only a short-lived. The assault scandal was a Rashomon, and the parties had their own opinions. Tonya was very likely to be innocent and was dragged down by the pig teammates. This was a good opportunity for the elite to beat her back to her original form. So she was banned for life , she was only 23. Years old, there were still many opportunities for a talented athlete who was just 23 years old. But it is a pity that the makers of social order do not allow such alternatives to exist.
At the trial, Tonya was so desperate that she was incoherent. She said that she was different from others and had no education. She could accept all punishments, but she could not be banned for life. Couldn't she be skating anymore? The judge was impatient at all, just like the faces of the judges who laughed at her clothes at the time. The lawyer also calmly (coldly) persuaded her to accept (I really hope that there will be a Gu Meimen lawyer to help her), and she is suffering in isolation and helplessness in court. .
For Tonya, all the joy of her life is figure skating, she has nothing but figure skating. Just like the cellist Du Pree in another movie "She is Lonely Than Fireworks", Du Pree finally became hysterical and suspicious of life, because without the cello, she would no longer be her. These geniuses left their realm of genius, and there was nothing left. Therefore, the U.S. official, judicial, and Olympic Sports Center bureaucrats all owe Tonya an apology for ruining the life of an athlete whose sole purpose is figure skating.
Investigating how this girl's tragic life came about is probably from her birth. In recent years, there is a disgusting concept called "primitive family" that has been hyped up in China, just as all the unfortunate original sins in a person's life come from the native family. This concept itself cannot agree. When a person has strong thinking ability, family is definitely not the source of all sins and pains. Unfortunately, Tonya has not had the opportunity to receive love since childhood. Because of the coldness of his mother, a little bit of warmth from her husband becomes With all her brilliance, she was laughed at by her mother to marry the first person who praised her beauty. My mother can't say that she doesn't love her at all, at least she also taught her to skate in a poor state, and warned her not to be with the person who beat her. However, a mother with a distorted life and personality will only hurt her. As for the husband, of course he loves Tonya and rescued Tonya from the original family, but in the end it also destroyed her career as an athlete.
The movie uses a black humorous way to tell all the misfortunes in life like a joke. There is a kind of feeling that the old lady was so miserable in the past. Just like the Japanese movie "The Unpleasant Life of Matsuko", the tragic life of the heroine Matsuko who has been lacking love throughout her life is played back in a funny way. In fact, for most people, the hard life is always based on mourning and black humor. Looking back at the past life, the hurdles that can’t live seem ridiculous, creating countless illusions of happiness and tragic human society hidden under the illusions. It's also ridiculous in itself. Tonya is too pitiful. Born unfortunately, she is outside the quality (high-level) image that the United States needs. In the end, she cannot rely on her own strength. This society does not sympathize with the weak .
Someone pointed out that India’s Amir Khan’s films "Wrestling Daddy" and "Mystery Superstar" both talk about the success of talented people. The significance of I, Tonya is that it not only re-discloses the scandal in the history of figure skating sports, but also frankly admits that as long as it fails to meet the expectations of the social circle, even geniuses will fail . When ordinary people encounter differences and irritation in the workplace, when they are disappointed when the goal they strive for finally fails, you know that this is the operating rule of our society. Every country has all kinds of injustices. When minorities can defend themselves by playing the victim card, no one cares about class issues. The director has the courage to put such a story on the big screen and point out people’s unbearable expectations. Redneck should continue to be a white trash. A lot of inspirational chicken soup deceives people that unfortunate people are because they don't work hard, but the bottom people are firmly stepped on the bottom, and even kick a few feet. How do you want them to succeed? It must be repackaged to please the circle that wants to squeeze into it. Each circle does not need to be different.
After the film was broadcast, Nancy, the protagonist who was silent about the attack that year, re-examined and spoke. She said that she was just a victim and this is her only identity in this incident. It is true that she is a victim. The media people who sympathized with her in the past desperately attacked Tonya, but now the people think she is a scheming bitch. But either Tonya or Nancy, they are just small members of the social system. It is society that causes poverty, and it is society that causes pain and hatred, but people always talk about the grievances and entanglements of the parties.
This is a very breathtaking movie.
The ending of the main characters is thought-provoking.
Tonya left the ice arena and embarked on boxing to satisfy people's desire to watch the show, and to stand up again and again on her own no matter how difficult it is. She remarried and became a mother, and emphasized that she is a good mother (She wants everyone to know she is a good mother).
Tonya's ex-husband has also remarried. What is particularly interesting is that the new wife's name is the same as Tonya's opponent back then, also called Nancy.
Tonya's mother doesn't have much contact with her daughter. According to Tonya's last news, she is now living behind a porn store.
Nancy also became a mother, participated in dance competitions after leaving the ice world, and later faded out of sight.
At the 1994 Norwegian Olympic Games, Tonya retired halfway through the stadium to re-adjust his shoes (restored in the movie), and missed the medal. Nancy lost to Ukraine's Oksana Bayul by a narrow margin and finished runner-up. In various competitions, although Tonya has first-rate skills, Nancy's impression score is always higher.
Video data, 1991 US Figure Skating Championships, American Skating Championships, Tonya successfully challenged the triple jump for the first time. This is her happiest competition (reproduced in the movie).
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