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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The movie was great, and I personally don't think Tonya knew the guy was going to physically hurt Nancy Kerrigan. Harding had a crazy life and I find her sympathetic.[/quote]

The movie wants her to be portrayed as the victim. It was a movie that is not set in reality of the actual events. Plenty of people have crappy lives and would not contribute to the assault of another human being. Hollywood movies manipulate the facts, your brain while they take in the cash.[/quote]

I think how some people like you are so bizarrely emphatic even years later that nothing about her life and situation can generate empathy. I feel like its so like...it was such an encapsulation of how we (American's) view the world.

Nancy was this good traditional hardworking elegant girl, and got the whole country behind her. And Tonya was a tough, poor, arguably far more hardworking considering what she was overcoming, crass girl who never learned how to be a good person but who wanted a different life for herself and fell victim to the habits her crappy life instilled in her. Nancy was always going to be fine. In another life she may or may not have won the gold but no matter what she was going to be fine. Tonya needed that gold to escape, so she behaved badly. And was very very thoroughly punished for it. And still 30 years later people are unable to find empathy  (which is not the same as forgiveness or acceptance) for her. Its amazing to me. [/quote]

Tonya was many things but she was never a hard worker, and THAT was her downfall.  Looking for shortcuts instead of just putting her nose to the grindstone.

Nancy, despite what you may believe, was a tomboy from a workingclass New England family, a welder's daughter, not especially refined or princessy until the Scotsvolds explained to her what Olympic caliber skating means and what it required of her.  It was NOT natural or easy for Nancy but she applied herself and got there.  I was never a fan of her skating but she did what she needed to do to elevate herself.

Tonya did NOT need the gold to "escape", whatever you mean by that. Remember that by the time she had a chance to go to the Olympics, she was already a world-class skater who could have settled into a respectable career of shows and coaching later. You don't need a gold medal for that.  Michelle Kwan had an amazing career without ever winning Olympic gold.  Tonya's own laziness, lack of work ethic and trashy character did her in.

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