Very well said
Balder, I agree with all the things you said.
My official rating for this movie is 9.1, and for a while it was ion my top 10 of best movies of all time.
I honestly feel
Balder nailed it this time, and it is hard for me to add anything else.
I am a big fan of the sport since I was a kid when I saw Michael Schumacher winning championships left and right like some kind of F1 Michael Jordan.
Michael Schumacher was to the sport in the 90s what Michael Jackson was to pop music, think Michael Phelps in swimming, or Mike Tyson at the time in boxing.
He eventually became the driver with the most wins, and a superstar in the sport at a time.
However this road was paved by other drivers of the past that set the standard of what being a superstar in the sport meant.
The Brazilian Ayrton Senna was one of these mythical champions, a kind of driver god that offered his life for the sport, and a predecessor to Schumacher.
Well, before Ayrton there was Niki, the only driver that has won Championships with Ferrari and Mclaren as well.
All of this at a time where the sport was more real than ever because it didn't have all those extra technological resources that the newest drivers like Lewis Hamilton take advantage of.
Niki Lauda is so significant in F1 for the personal sacrifices he had to make to continue his passion of performing the sport, and the results he obtained doing it.
In Ferrari he still holds the highest numbers for the sport along Schumacher, and only Sebastian Vettel comes close.
This Ron Howard movie portraits in such a magnificent way those challenges he went through to achieve that kind of greatness.
Sadly he passed away in 2019 while still dedicating his life to the sport in the management positions.
You can see him still in management action in the Netflix show of Formula 1 that I highly recommend. It is surprisingly good.
I have watched those seasons more than once because they are that good, and it was really nice to see Niki appeared.
He also appears in the documentary of Ayrton Senna from 2010.
I have to say that the movie is so good that to me it became one of the best sources other than the real videos to appreciate his legacy.
Even if someone is not into the sport, the story, and the portrait of it here, is still compelling enough to leave a mark of human passion on those that watch it.
