She convincingly handles the skating work (with the help of a double) and the role of a complex woman who was ridiculed publicly for trying to knock Kerrigan (Caitlin Carter) out of the competition but
whose own
past clearly played a key role with an
abusive mother and husband.
As the film goes on, this hesitance to show violence in tandem with the hallucinatory sound and flashes of images from Joe's
past begins to paint a picture; of a man
whose abusive childhood has stayed with him.