[R] I, Tonya

There's one shot at the end of this movie where after the press is gone, and Jeff is eating a bowl of cereal. He looks out at the window, at the last K2 news van driving away, and in the background on his television you can see the news is on and he's no longer being talked about.

Or thought about.

Or even remembered.

He was never famous, he was just a headline. His crime would be remembered when his name was forgotten. He was never the focus, and he was never important. He was a background character to most people, backstory in Tonya's life. Like her skill as a mechanic, her hobby for hunting.

This movie is really about the hubris of man, how important people feel so much more important than they actually are. How most people today don't know the name Tonya Harding. How in five days i will have forgotten Jeff's name. How in a few months I won't remember Tonya's father. 

And really the movie is about how much of the story we don't see, how the public only saw Tonya's ego. How we didn't see the abuse, neglect, and desperation that led her to the situation she ended up in. This hits especially after reading Jeanette McCurdy's memoir recently.

There are so many stories between the gaps in the floorboards and the cracks in the windshield. This movie lets you see just a little bit of the truth.