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The Movie 'I, Tonya' Just Might Teach You That There Is Nothing That You Can't Do In Life

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't be whoever you want to be.

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The Movie 'I, Tonya' Just Might Teach You That There Is Nothing That You Can't Do In Life
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Just a typical Saturday night, my friends and I were looking for something fun to do and we decided to see a movie. We went to the theater at 10 pm, and of course, there weren’t that many to pick. We saw only two movies showing that night, one of them was “I, Tonya” starring Margot Robbie. After browsing the rating for the movie, we quickly decide to watch “I, Tonya” that night.

Not knowing what to expect, the movie was actually based on true story about the phenomenal figure skater, Tonya Harding, and her life journey. There was a little bit of everything. A mix of hardship to get to be the first American woman to land a triple axel, a love/hate relationship with her former husband and her mother who both were abusive and the procured the attack on her fellow Olympic competitor, Nancy Kerrigan.

It was a special kind of movie, there was no happy or sad ending. It was a real-life story depicted in a movie, played by a different person and yet it still looked authentic.

I love how the sport itself is the center of her life, it was her life. Not meaning to spoil the movie, but, this movie showed how skating takes an impeccable amount of dedication, practice, and hard work to be great in figure skating. It made me appreciate more of the sport, where nowadays if someone wants to choose the sport as a career choice, it is rarely recognized as a “real thing.”

There were many life lessons I could learn from the movie. One of them is to not let others tell you what you can’t do. I knew a handful amount of people that were close to me chose not to continue practicing the arts, music, or sports because of how society perceives it as not a real job that will give you money.

It is devastating to see how beautifully my friend painted and produced a work of art that is priceless and yet she took another career choice because she was not “investing” enough.

The movie, “I, Tonya” opened up my eyes to how sometimes you have to prove what you can do in life even when no one believes in you.

There are too many people in this world trying to be what society wants them to be, forgetting that each person has different roles to play and that's what makes it unique.

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