{"id":11011,"date":"2018-01-09T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2018-01-09T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:19:12","slug":"slapstick-tragedy-review-tonya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/01\/slapstick-tragedy-review-tonya.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Slapstick Tragedy&#8221;: I review &#8220;I, Tonya&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at First Things. And I did an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evetushnet\/status\/950753883218948096\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">extended twitter thread<\/a> of notes, outtakes, and skating videos which I think is a good companion to the piece.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"s1\">There seem to be two directions in which a movie with this knowing, winking attitude can go. If we\u2019re lucky, it will be pure camp, in which the grotesque, disgraced female is an audience-identification figure, a pitied monster. If we\u2019re unlucky, it will be a comedy of contempt, inviting us to laugh at lowlife Tonya and her endless excuses. The startling achievement of Craig Gillespie\u2019s film is that although it does display the lacerating empathy of camp, for almost its entire run time it balances perfectly on a double-edged blade: the outside edge of satire and the inside edge of tragedy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/01\/slapstick-tragedy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at First Things. And I did an extended twitter thread of notes, outtakes, and skating videos which I think is a good companion to the piece. There seem to be two directions in which a movie with this knowing, winking attitude can go. If we\u2019re lucky, it will be pure camp, in which the grotesque, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[290,17,31,153,113],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-all-of-life-is-a-choice-of-genre","tag-children-will-listen","tag-god-bless-the-1990s-because-no-one-else-will","tag-kiss-and-cry","tag-woman-is-the-irony-of-the-community"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Slapstick Tragedy&quot;: I review &quot;I, Tonya&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"at First Things. And I did an extended twitter thread of notes, outtakes, and skating videos which I think is a good companion to the piece. 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