Attention! This material is a spoiler to the movie "Tonya against all".
the Story, partly based on real events about the scandalous skater Tonya Harding, the famous Olympic champion, who also became famous for the story of the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
In the film, little Tony raised by a single mom. This is very cruel and cold woman who decided to make his daughter the star of figure skating.
Tonya from an early age winning many competitions, winning medals and becoming the first woman executed a triple Axel in the short program. The narcissistic mother has a narcissistic child. Success story ends tragically–exit figure skating Association, fines, three years probation and correctional work.
what traits in the character grows the main character?
• inflated self-esteem
• the desire for unlimited power and victories
• confidence in their own exceptionalism
• need for excessive admiration from others
• use others to achieve their own goals
• display your own neglect of others, arrogance.
Tonya constantly make trouble with the judges of the competition, requires special conditions. In desperation, she commits a crime against her rival to remove her from the match.
what can you say about the protagonist's mother?
It is cruel and devalues, never satisfied with the results, the disdain of his daughter. Mother is a narcissist doesn't hear the feelings your child is manipulating him, accuses, ridicules. She reminds her daughter about how "plow" on his work to pay for sports; regularly beat, ignores the physiological (to go to the bathroom), social (to sew a beautiful suit) needs. Speeches about personal space daughters and can not be. As soon as Tony has a new boyfriend, mother goes along with them on the first date and there is acting openly rude. Throughout the film, and I want to hear a mother ever praised her daughter for success. But this is not happening... No love, warmth, care, encouragement, approval, pride in the achievements of her daughter.
If Tonya was angry at her mother, and tried to somehow Express my anger, she was getting more violence and beatings. As a result of this ban on aggression, Tonya throws this energy first in the hunt with his father, and then in sports. It becomes her narcissistic resource. And after this will be the box.
Here are some phrases from the film, which sounded from his mother:
• "She was always difficult, and we spoil her"
" Show me a family in which there are no difficulties"
" I'm telling you, what to do"
• Reaction to something, as the daughter rides and performs new items
" Usually, nothing special"
" You rode like a brick on the asphalt"
• Tony's Mother decides that she rides better when she's angry, and he adds:
"This girl is your enemy, no need to be friends with her." And when it comes to important competitions, she captivates a man, so that he cried out a Tone before the speech offensive phrases that she is capable of nothing to anger her.
• "you Selfish brat, whore."
the Children of such parents often become victims of violence. Personal life Tony formed a typical in this case family scenario. She falls in love with a guy who regularly beats her. Marry him. They then converge, then diverge. Tone nowhere to go, or to mother-rapist, or the husband-rapist. Eternal throwing from terrible to bad, and Vice versa.
When her husband Tony beats her, she says "Mom hits me but she loves me, so my husband loves me". The oldest story in the world...
after Seeing the black eye Tony, the mother first begins to talk about the fact that I would not live with someone who beat her. But immediately after hearing from the daughter reproach, that she learned she adds:
" Maybe even hit you?"
" I support your relationship" and then adds "Kiss your mother", and Tonya hiding disgust, kisses his mother, learning that love and violence are very close concepts.
Well, the culmination of the relationship between mother and daughter, in my opinion, are 2 things. First – when Tonya decides to honor judges and to represent "the normal American family" as they ask. She goes to the mother to establish a relationship and Tonya asked, did it ever mother. To which she answers evasively "I made you a champion, you should be grateful."
At the end of the film, the mother comes to Tone and says to be proud of its achievements. This is the first time Tonya sees the love of a mother for 22 years. She hugs her, crying, and then the mother asks, did she attack on Nancy. Tonya realizes that in the pocket of the mother the recorder.
During the sentencing Tonya begs the judge to give her a real deadline, because "Riding is all I know". She does not see herself out of sports, out of the fight. Even after Tonya was removed from figure skating, she chooses to work in Boxing. Her words "Cruelty is what I know best".
In an interview with Tonya ironically adds "Nancy flew only once, and I beat all my life!"
the Film is marketed as a black Comedy. In my opinion, nothing comedic there. When domestic violence hiding behind the mask of humor, you need to remember that it's just a genre, and the violence is not fun. For me it is a tragedy about the transmission of trauma through generations.
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