I know nothing about Formula 1 racing and its so weird that you don’t really need to in order to love this movie, especially because the film is so much about the inner politics of a major sport organization. The film doesn’t use talking heads, but relies instead on VO from interviews with various people. It makes you forget that the film is a documentary at times and that you’re just watching a narrative film. The final 25 minutes are edited so well and it transforms into compositions in a similar way to how someone would shoot a scripted movie. The end also becomes very harrowing because you get the sense Senna will die, but you do not know when. There are so many crashes that follow that you expect him to involved in all of them. For that matter, it is INSANE how many crashes he is involved in or how many crashes happen in F1 to begin with. It is an insanely dangerous sport. Never have I seen racing be given such humanity. You really get the sense of how amazing of an athlete Senna was. I’m shocked that a major Hollywood studio hasn’t made film about him yet, especially with the personality he had. The world is truly a little less passionate without him.
