 Come on! What kind of friggin person bashes in their friend's knee? Who would do that to a friend? So it was just 23 years ago when we had two Olympic skiers competing for the goal with Tanya Harding vs Nancy Kerrigan and everybody wanted to know about the incident, all the behind the scenes and good stuff and now we have a film called I Tanya. So what did I think about it? Well, let's get into it. My name is Brandon Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for I Tanya. I really do appreciate it. But before we get into the review, help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button. Also click the bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and also give me that thumbs up. Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes. So now we have I Tanya and everybody pretty much remembers this story. I don't know how old you are if you're watching this but it only happened 23 years ago in the mid 90s. It was 1994 to be exact. It was Tanya Harding vs Nancy Kerrigan competing for the goal in the Olympics. This film dives into a lot more story before that time but this movie is really about the incident. And if you don't know the incident and this is completely new to you, Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were two Olympic skiers that were competing for the goal in the Olympics. And Nancy Kerrigan was more of the favorite. She was more of the popular. It looked like she was going to win. So there was an incident to where a mysterious figure found Nancy Kerrigan back in the Coliseum in the hallways in the corridor, pulled out some big metal police rod and just knocked Nancy Kerrigan in the right knee to damage her knee so she wasn't able to compete. And it was alleged or it was accused that Tanya Harding was the one that was behind it all or she knew about it. And this movie here dives into that story and gives you a lot of the perspective from Tanya Harding's side of view. Now I remember this like it was yesterday. I was around 10 years old when this came out. I remember watching the Olympics and watching all the skating and Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan coming up to this point. And I was really into it or whatever. I mean at this time this is when the triple axel was like just such a big deal like this impossible feat that you could you know that competitors try to do on the ice. And if you could do it you know you pretty much you was in there you won you was like the best of the best. I remember this like it was yesterday. I remember seeing Nancy Kerrigan on the interview screaming why why it hurts why do they do this and you know all the allegations and the accusing and you know mud slinging back and forth on who was responsible. I remember all that if you don't know you can go and YouTube all that up right now. And I just remember it like saying to myself like I was just so upset and frustrated like man like how could you do this to somebody like I mean you know don't be a sore loser you know do the best you can practice you train but if somebody beats you you know they just beat you they're better than you and you cannot you know just you know go out like that so are you hiring people to beat people's legs and things like that that's just shady you're a hater you know I was just really you know frustrated with Tonya Harding at the time but at the same time not really knowing if she was responsible but I do remember 23 years ago asking myself like man what was she thinking you know what really happened I wish I could get you know a little bit of backstory and now we have this movie I time you to answer all those questions and you know I'm really glad I saw it now this movie is being directed by Craig Gillespie he is the director for the finest hours which came out last year 2016 where it was a bunch of seamen and Chris Pine was one of the lead actors and I thought that film was pretty decent and he also did million dollar arm which came out a little bit before that and that was a film that I did not see. Now Margo Robbie is the titular actor actress in this movie playing Tonya Harding also Sebastian Stan is her husband at the time by the name of Jeff Galooly and Alison Janie is playing Tonya Harding's mother named LaVanna Golden and I'll just say this right off the top the casting in this movie was spot on especially from Alison Janie and Margo Robbie I'm really not too familiar with Alison Janie's work she did up here in the movie Juno that came out in 2007 and I missed that film I really wanted to see it everybody told me how great it was but I missed it but she was also in the hip which came out a number of years ago they got nominated and got a lot of recognition doing the war season and so that was a great movie and Margo Robbie popped up with me at the end of 2013 with the Wolf of Wall Street you know before that I pretty much never heard of her before of course she was in Suicide Squad and I believe what was the other movie that she was in I probably should have written it down oh the Tarzan movie and also Focus which came out a couple of years ago with Will Smith she's a great actress and you know to be honest with you this is possibly that one of the better performances that I've seen her in out of all you know out of her whole filmography and I'll touch on that just a little bit more but this film you know I like to divide films into parts you know two parts three parts four parts three extra or whatever but you can divide this film into you know I guess yeah three parts as well not not in the act not in the three act structure but just three parts to where it goes Tonya Harding's childhood and the way she was raised and just that whole environment the actual incident itself and then you know things after the after the incident and what took place after that and this is really just like a biography sports drama type of movie because it has sporting in it of course because they were ice figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerr again this is also a drama because some of the stuff is sad it's also kind of a dark comedy as well and I'll get to that but it is really also a biography on the life of Tonya Harding because the film starts off you know at a very young age of her I think at the age of technically she was three years old but her mother being played by Alice and Janey in real life her name is LaVonna Golden you know she said a soft four and you know I am I'm not a doctor I'm not a psychologist but I did you know study that you know when I was in school and just me personally you know everybody is a product of their environment you've heard that before but it's just so true and I realize that you know every day as I get older and I mean there's just no other way around it so just me personally whether it's in a movie a drama a documentary real life whatever I'm always just really interested in knowing you know where somebody came from you know why the way they are you know what you know how will they raise I mean these things just really interest me and you know like why does someone have a chip on the shoulder why do they wear their heart on the sleeve like what happened you know I've been told I'm a good listener I mean that's just kind of things that I'm interested in and you know like when I was starting off this review I was just really concerned you know we're saying even now before I saw this movie now that I'm talking in when I was a child when this real incident happened I'm just like wanting to know what happened and this movie is very good as far as just really telling you how time your hearting was raised and you know why she became the woman that she is today and at that time in 1992 and 1994 and you know no matter what someone goes through for the most part like life is not fair it's just not you know some people you know grow up and they're just treated like crap for no reason and some people grow up with a silver spoon and you know there's a lot in between as well and there as well and you know we just can't do anything about it for the most part all we can do is just take the cars that were dealt and do the best that we possibly can and you know that's what's telling your hearting had to do and how it was portrayed in this movie and you know when people you know have hard times and they don't have all the advantages of somebody else you know I feel sorry for them to an extent but at the same time I'm also just like hey like I just said you have to just do the best you can you know with the cars that you dealt but to be honest with you I'm not I'm not sorry for telling your hearting as far as you know I don't you know I'm not you just like oh she had a valid reason you know for being involved in you know getting Nancy Kerrigan's leg beat but at the same time when I watch this movie I have to be honest with you I did feel a little bit sorry for her when I was watching this movie that just goes with the writing the story the plot and pacing of this movie and just the performances and like you know telling your heart and she had a rough life I mean it's just you know it's just not fair she had a her father was there in her life but it talks about you know her mother LaVanna how she was married six times that's a lot six times and telling your hearting was her fourth child from her fifth husband and at a young age I want to say it's about four five maybe five or six years old her father was in her life but things didn't work out with her mother LaVanna and you know he went his separate ways and you know just seeing like a little girl you know playing well what is the little girl's name because I really I should have wrote that down just give me a second guys yeah young Tonya Harding by someone made by the name of McKenzie Grace this is a very young actress let me look how old she is she was born in super well she's 11 years old wow she looked like she was much younger but she was born June 25th 2006 and this young child actress this 11-year-old did a really good job with emoting on screen and I'm just like man you go a little tiny I really feel sorry for you there was just one scene to where she was just like dad don't leave me and she did a much better job than I'm doing right now but I was like man that just really sucks you know like you know that just the things that children have to go through in the world and it's just not their fault or whatever and it realized that I say it's not you know it's not her fault I'm gonna bring it up later okay I'm trying to make a point there but you know a little McKenzie McKinney Grace did a great job great casting there as far as Margot Robbie playing the teenage version of Tonya Harding I thought that they could have got another actress to come in and do that because you know I'm just being honest with you know Margot Robbie is very attractive woman she's very sexy as hell and if you've seen the Wolf of Wash Street you know exactly what I'm talking about if you've seen Suicide Squad that crappy movie you know what I'm talking about so you can only de-age a grown woman so much so seeing Margot Robbie with certain makeup and hairstyles and things like that trying to portray a 15 year old I just really wasn't buying it I'm like okay you don't look like you're 15 you know they could have got a better actress in there but that was only like one brief scene so you know I'm not gonna harp on that too much and I'm just trying to you know go up the ladder as far as the age when I said that this is a dark comedy they do have some comedic elements in this movie as well like her mother was like extremely strict like just strict as hell just like you know like just didn't have a filter you know I understand that she was trying to protect her daughter but like one scene to where Tonya Harding was gonna go on a date like her first date ever or whatever the mom went with them or whatever and you know I can understand you kind of like want to drop them off or something like that you've been protective I get that but my goodness gracious that you have to be there up under Tonya Harding and her date the whole time like at the table bother eating and just like hey have y'all had sex yet and she didn't even say that she said the f-word I'm just like oh my god it was shocking but at the same time it was funny and with this being a biography and a lot of dark moments and time in history they had to do with these two figure skaters you know I really have to give it up to the writer Steve Rogers Captain America I'm joking it's not really Captain America but the writer it really is named Steve Rogers and if you know Marvel comics you get that but for him able to include little dark comedic moments like that in this movie that kind of is I don't want to say it's sad but just you know has to do with an incident and it said I really like how he messed that together and how the director Craig Gillespie took advantage of that and didn't dilute the film or whatever it actually brought it up and it made me laugh out loud you know like you know while I was in the theater but you know just something else like Lovanna her mother like was just really abusive and just really mean and just was like really demanding and was just kind of like a dictator I mean like you know wouldn't let her go to the bathroom like was verbally and physically abusive to the point where Tonya Harding just had to you know leave the house at a young age just like it was dangerous like her life was threatened well I don't want to exaggerate too much but it's like I don't want to spoil the movie for you either but it was just like one time in the movie towards the beginning to us just something happened it was having an argument that was having a disagreement I'm just like okay whoa LaVanna you just took it too far and they just have to stop and just like I was okay time you just need to get away this is not your fault you know and you just had to get out of their situation because it was just gonna get worse and what makes the matters worse is LaVanna she just was not you know apologetic about it all she had no more she was just like hey you know my mother treated me like crap and I'm gonna treat you like crap too she didn't say that I'm gonna treat you like crap too but she just like hey you know you should be grateful who I am you know the mother that you have within me you know my mother did treat me like crap and I know it may seem like I'm talking a lot of spoilers but this is movie is based on a true story and these interviews and things have been around for years that you can look up so I mean if you don't know the story I don't want to say I'm sorry but you know I'm just trust me I'm not spoiling anything for you and when I say this is based on a true story and this is also goes into the story how this move this movie this film was made is this movie is based on a true story based on interviews they had to do with all the key influential figures they had to do in real life Nancy Carrigan did not interview in this movie at all one of fun facts she was just like she didn't want to interview she also did not want to see the film as well because I understand that she already lived this moment she has to say that herself but the people that are interviewed in this movie is of course Tonya Harding played by Margot Robbie Sebastian Stan Jeff Gulligli Gulligli Alice and Janie Lovanna Golden and the bodyguard what is his name and there's another like there's a some I don't know if you I don't remember this too well but if you're probably like 45 and up tell me if you remember a production company called hard copy because there's a gentleman by the name of Bobby Cornwall that played the real-life person of a hard copy you know what's the word I was going to say tactician not not I want to say anchor or journalist or pundit and also the guy that played the guy to play Tonya Harding's bodyguard I didn't want to write his name down because I didn't think that I would bring him up in this review but now I want to but the thing about this film being based on interviews is it's not based off the real-life interviews it's based on it well it is based on those interviews but in the film the film has the interviews of the actors and actresses so it's Sebastian Stan this interview on this is Margot Robbie this interviewing it is Allison Janie this interviewing and that takes up about 35 to 40% of the movie and that may sound like it could be kind of janky or disjointed or drawing but no the way that they included that into the film was fantastic that was actually one of the best parts of the movie that I really did enjoy it because it's just you know the the the actor in the actress is just breaking the fourth wall just talking to you like they can have Sebastian Stan as Jeff her husband at the time saying something but then have Margot Robbie cut in as Tonya Harding be like okay yeah that part was true that part was not true and then vice versa I loved all that and that was just in the interviews itself but then again when you actually have the movie in itself you actually had Tonya herself played by Margot Robbie breaking the fourth wall just looking at the camera like okay you know I did shoot the I did shoot the gun here or I didn't go that far and it's just like a bunch of tattle-telling at all you really don't know exactly what's true and what's false and know where to draw the line that may sound like it's frustrating but I actually found it fascinating kind of like a little puzzle piece of myself like okay you know like what's true was not true just like a little game and you know and myself so I mean seeing Tonya Harding being brought up from childhood from like three to four years old all the way up to her lower 20s was fantastic and seeing all these interviews was fantastic as well but then it finally gets over to the incident and I like how they put that in the film as well because it really gave you the perspective of not telling Harding not just Nancy Kerrigan but also the attackers themselves and like what they were thinking and that could have easily been something that they could have ignored or brushed over because pretty much everybody knows and heard of this story but they did give those characters a lot of attention and the acting during those scenes was you know quite that was quite good as well and like before I shot this review I was I wanted to go back and look at all the real life interviews on YouTube just to refresh my memory and they had a bunch of security officers like running through the hallways and running down the streets trying to find out you know who the guy was and where he came from you had some witnesses like yeah the guy had a club he was a big white guy with a leather jacket and he went that way and they're just running around not knowing what to do but like or knowing where he is but in contrast to that in the movie they gave you the full perspective of the attacker from the time of them planning from the time of them coming to the arena while they're walking through the hallway and running around trying to escape or whatever so I mean I kind of feel like I have a full you know picture here and you know that this feeling really answered a lot of questions that I've had for the last 23 years I mean I wasn't thinking about this five years ago like man I still wish I knew what happened doing you know the Tonya Harding Nancy Kerrigan incident but now that this is a film that there is in theaters and there you know it's coming more coming to the light of day it is something that I really did appreciate the only other gripe that I have about this film is and I completely understand why they may not have one to include it was that at one point in time they started telling you about the relationship between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding and talking about how they were friends but they just kind of jump cut to that real quick and then they cut away and I was like okay okay you said there was friends we got 30 seconds of it and then you know it was in the same hotel room and then we don't get any of that anymore and we just get the incident or whatever and so the incident like I just talked about that that was fantastic as well and then we get a little bit after the incident and that is a lot of the court proceedings and things like that and like I said before there is a lot of comedic dark moments in this movie and just with one like what's on your heart and his bodyguard the guy is a freaking baboon idiot or whatever the way he was portrayed in this movie and you know I was just kind of laughing just how stupid he was in just you know how he will lie to himself and just you know he was freaking delusional or whatever so again just them being able to combine these comedic moments in this time or whatever I just thought that was a great job by the director and the writer now I want to see is there anything else that I want to talk about I think that's pretty much it yeah yeah yeah I hit on that point I hit on that point I hit on that point and I hit on that point but I feel like I'm leaving something else out that's just really important now as far as the true story goes for a long time after the incident Sonia Harding denied that she did not know about the attack she denied she denied she denied I saw one interview like real life interview where she they said that she never immediately did another one to where she finally came out and said that she did know about the attack before it comes she ended up she ended up not even placing at the Olympics in 94 Nancy you know Tonya Hart not Nancy Kerrigan ended up getting like the bronze medal in 92 and the the silver medal at the Olympics but I oh yeah I just want to touch back like Tonya Harding throughout this whole movie played by Margaret Ryder just kept saying that you know this is not my fault this is not my fault this is not my fault she kept putting the blame on other people and while it sometimes I don't feel sorry for her and some instances I do and I'm just really torn by that you know because she really just did have a crappy upbringing and I really seen this from this movie and that was just pretty much the best part of it to me you know the skating was great you know she was not it they had to do some CGI for her to do the triple axle and now that was great but Margot Robbie's performance in this thing was fantastic I said at the very beginning of this review that this is the best performance that I've seen her do because that was just one time like after the incident when she was there just trying to perform she was just broken and you know trying to put up makeup and she just looked horrible I'm not trying to clown her anything but I was like damn I mean like I feel sorry for you I mean I don't I don't feel sorry for you if you knew about the attack that's just this despicable you got to take your L's when they come you got to take the W's when they come you win some you lose some but it was just one scene to where she was about to perform and she just didn't she she would just pull in every which way you know her her mom treated her like crap her husband treated her like crap and beat on her and all this and she was so she would fight back and then it would the the competition's wasn't fair either I mean they just wasn't judging her on the skating it was just because of the image and she was just like look why can't you just judge me on the skating they're just like you're not the image that we want you're you're representing America you know these snobby judges and it's like man it just really sucks it's just not fair and this film did a great job of putting that on the forefront and so those are the points where I actually feel sorry for Tony Hardy you know and Margot Robbie made me feel that way with her acting because it was just this one scene to where she just like looking at the screen like I have nothing left like God you know and it was just a great performance guys I really enjoyed this movie and it really frustrates me because this is actually one of the better movies of the year and it's gonna make my top 10 best films of 2017 even hard so yes I will be I will be having well let me well yeah I can talk about that okay I will be making a top 10 best of 2017 and though the top 10 is gonna be the 10 films that I deserve that I feel should be in the Oscar race also will have be having a top 10 favorite of 2017 those are my favorite my biased opinion doesn't have anything to do with quality just you know my favorite biased opinion I'm also going to review all the money in the world I'll probably post that tomorrow probably post the two top 10s on Sunday and I don't know if I'm gonna do a top 10 worse I don't know if I do it excuse me it'll just be a surprise but guys if I have to rate I tell you out of a one out of ten I will easily give this a nine out of ten yes eight nine out of ten but guys that's just my opinion have you seen I tell you do you want to see it have I turned you one have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going to keep it flowing if you liked this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't that's fine go ahead and subscribe to my channel also check me out on my website bookmark that I would appreciate it also go to my us look me up on social media Facebook Instagram and Twitter all that good stuff it's right there at the bottom of the screen and I made it easy by providing a link to all that down in the description box below but guys I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review for itania starring Sebastian Stan Margot Robbie and Allison Jane he directed by Craig Gillespie and before you go don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith Avery and that's just my opinion peace