10 Movies That Judge You For Watching

9. I, Tonya

I, Tonya
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Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya was marketed as an expose of all the dishy details behind figure skater Harding's meteoric rise and dramatic fall, after her ex-husband infamously orchestrated an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan, resulting in Harding being banned from competitive figure skating for life.

But I, Tonya is not quite so keen to indulge the tabloid aspersions about Harding's life and times, instead presenting Harding as a narrator - albeit, in fairness, an unreliable one - of her own life story.

The idea, clearly, is to give a more balanced view of an event largely misinterpreted by the public, and while addressing the audience directly, Margot Robbie's Harding makes little effort to hide her disdain for a general public that took the tabloid reporting at face value.

Harding damn-near burns a hole through the screen as she tells the viewer of the fallout surrounding Kerrigan's injury, "It was like being abused all over again, only this time it was by you. All of you. You are all my attackers too."

Obviously Harding has a vested interest in the audience seeing a more balanced perspective of what went down, but at the same time, the movie holds the audience to account for their own prior prejudices. Brilliant.

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