The Girl on the Train - 列車上的女孩

The Girl on the Train (列車上的女孩) is an 2016 film. The movies stars Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Édgar Ramírez and Lisa Kudrow.

Rachel rides the train everyday and is obsessed with her ex-husband and his new wife. So obsessed that they have a restraining order on her. When a neighbor goes missing that she knows, she starts to inject herself into those on the case. However, Rachel isn't all there and is an alcoholic. Will she mess up her life and others with her obsession?

This movie was trippy. Emily Blunt does not look good in this movie. As Rachel, the character has no redeeming qualities and you should not feel for her. But the movie doesn't care and gives her chances after chances. Everyone in this film is beautiful. From Emily all the way down. Beautiful people all abound in this film. Yet the subject matter in almost all their lives is dark, dirty, and disdainful. If you want your life to be like theirs, you're in for a world of drama, lies, and deceit. This is not a film I would ever watch again, no matter how beautiful everyone in the film are.

I, Tonya - 老娘叫譚雅

I, Tonya (老娘叫譚雅) is an 2017 movie. The film stars Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, and Bobby Cannavale. The movie is an biographical portrayal of Tonya Harding, a USA Olympic figure skater in the early 1990s. Tonya Harding has also openly supported the movie.

Story starts in 1973 when Tonya was 3 years old and showed skating talent at a local ice rink. Fast forward through some childhood struggles with family and money, we get to Tonya meeting Jeff Gillooly, her first husband through the 1994 Winter Olympics. The story takes an extended stop for their love story and her skating career in high school. It dives into more of her relationship with her mom and how hard it was on her. It also show how her "white trash" exterior lead to unfair scores and her constant battle with the system. Eventually, it leads to her landing her triple axle and eventually making both the 1992 and 1994 winter Olympics.

This was a good movie. I was totally waiting for the next step and wanted it to continue. I thought the pace was good and I felt compassion for Tonya at the end of the film. Unfortunately for me, I didn't start to follow the Winter Olympics until Michelle Kwan search for gold during the late 1990s and early 2000s. I was also a young lad in school, whom didn't really follow sports outside of the Lakers, Angels, and Dodgers. I had only heard of those stories because it was unescapable for a certain period time. So, to see this movie presented was a new fresh blast from the past.

However, I won't be watching this again. It was a good one watch I would recommend it to friends my age type of movie.