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REVIEW: F1 The Movie -- Super Source of Inspiration
By The Treasure-Seeker
I watched F1 The Movie with my man last week, and ended up talking to him about a lot of the details and symbolism. I ended up saying that I wanted to review it, and he told me that I should do it soon, probably for that week, since I'm pretty forgetful, and would do best to record my thoughts while they were fresh. The problem was, I had already promised in the last post that I had put out that I would be writing a tips article on how to choose couple rings from Temu the next week, so I had to adhere to what I said, and work on that first. My man told me that I should review the movie the week after, so that's why I'm doing it now.
I'll do my best to try to remember what we thought and had to say. If I misremember certain numbers or small details, then I apologize in advance, as my memory (especially for stuff that I've watched a week ago!) is pretty bad, and I also don't have access to the movie to be able to fact-check my review right now.
I'll also be adding any additional thoughts or insights that my man might have to add.
You can see some of the F1 movie trailers on the F1 The Movie Apple TV page, to get a sense of what it's about. You can also see one of the official promotional posters for it above, also taken from the AppleTV page, and some more official posters for it below, taken from the F1 The Movie IMBD page.
Aside from the first picture, all the rest of the photos in this article have been taken from the F1 The Movie IMBD page.
I haven't read any other F1 movie reviews, but I suspect that they don't delve much into the rich symbolism embedded in the movie, so I'm going to let the other F1 movie reviews cover the other aspects of the movie, while I explore the movie's story, symbols, and themes.
This movie is one that I think you can watch again and again, especially in times when you need a reminder that opportunities will always make themselves available to those who never quit, and that success comes to those who never stop driving for their dreams. Whether you are at a low point in your life and need something to re-motivate, re-inspire, and re-ignite you, or you want something to keep you pumped and inspired, this movie has the capacity to do both.
The F1 movie really resonated with me because it made me think of my man and all the obstacles that he has had to, and continues to, go through. After we watched it -- and maybe even while we were watching it -- I was thinking that God had led us to watch it as a sign for us to never stop driving and striving, so that we can finally start flying -- which is what I think is the takeaway message of the movie.
When I think about it, I actually recommend the F1 movie to all adult males, because I think that that's the audience that it will most resonate with -- with its adult male lead, adult main characters, and the experiences and the lessons conveyed pertaining to people who have lived long enough to be able to really appreciate and understand the significance of the main character's setbacks, choices, losses, sacrifices, and triumphs. Of course, younger males will probably also enjoy it, since it's a car movie. I still remember staying with a family who had two sons who were probably both under five, who named the make (and maybe even model) of every car that passed us by, every time we went for a drive, and I bet that they would have been stoked to watch this movie, even back then.
I think that women could also enjoy F1 The Movie, if they're into driving, racing, or car movies, or if they are Brad Pitt fans. I'm pretty neutral about all of these areas, although being with my man has helped me gain a better appreciation for cars, and for car-related movies, like The Fast and the Furious series, which I had never seen until he watched the movies with me, and explained parts of them to me. Now, I'm a Fast and Furious fan too. :)
As a woman, I grew up not understanding most films I'd dubbed as "guy movies." I remember the first time that I tried watching an action movie alone. It was called Infernal Affairs, and a male roommate at the time owned it, and had told me that it was the best movie ever. I ended up missing the whole point of the movie because I didn't know what a "mole" was, and so didn't understand what was going on for the entire movie. 
I had to ask my roommate to explain to me pretty much the entire plot, and then rewatched the movie afterward, and then thought that it was freaking amazing -- and even thought of it as one of my favorite movies for quite a long while, with my newfound understanding of and appreciation for it. It was actually so good that it was later remade into the movie The Departed, if you've seen that. I can't remember if I've seen it, but I know that the original is still supposed to be way better. See promo posters for Infernal Affairs and The Departed to the sides, taken from the movies' IMBD pages.
I don't know if other girls are like me, and need a guy to explain movies that I consider to be made for guys (which I feel F1 The Movie to be) to them, but I'm thankful to say that, thanks to all the movies that I've seen over the years with my man, with him breaking down ones that I don't understand to me, and watching a fair bit of action, epic, car-racing, and other movies with me, I had no problem getting into F1 The Movie.
I have no idea if other women have had trouble following guy movies like I have, but I think that the plotline of this movie is simple enough to follow -- and, if it isn't, I think that it's worth watching with a guy, and seeing if he can explain it, like my man does for me.
An interesting tidbit that my man told me about car racing that I think is worth sharing is that watching car racing live is actually only interesting for ridiculously short bursts of time, since the cars are only visible when they speed by the audience, who then have to wait for maybe 20 minutes before they can see it happen again (based on what my man remembered it feeling like when he watched it as a kid). My man had been taken to a race track once as a child, and loved the few seconds of action, but was bored like crazy by the wait time in between lap completions.
Knowing this helped me understand what it was really like to attend a car race -- since that's (thankfully) not captured in the film -- as well as helped me appreciate why the film only showed important snippets of each race.
My man says that F1 The Movie is half a comeback story, and half an underdog story -- the difference between the two being that, in a comeback story, the main character has actually experienced what it's like to be on top, and then had to experience it and everything that came with it all being taken away from him, and having to work to get back on top again, while an underdog has not experienced this level of success yet, and is the least likely candidate in everyone's mind to be able to make it happen. In this case, Brad Pitt's character, Sonny Hayes, is a man trying to make a comeback, after becoming famous and almost reaching the top, but who is viewed by everyone as a never-was, with no hope of getting to the top.
Surface Look at "F1"
The "top" in this movie is winning the Formula 1 race, which is what the "F1" in the movie title refers to. According to Wikipedia's Formula One page, Formula 1 racing is "the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)," and the FIA Formula One World Championship "is often considered to be the pinnacle of motorsport."
Wikipedia describes how the word "formula" in the name refers to the set of rules that all participating cars must follow, and how a Formula 1 season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, which take place in multiple countries and continents, on either purpose-built circuits or closed roads. See below to see an example of a purpose-built circuit, taken from the F1 movie IMBD page.
Wikipedia further details how "a points scoring system is used at Grands Prix to determine two annual World Championships: one for the drivers, and one for the constructors -- now synonymous with teams," and how each driver must hold a valid Super Licence -- the highest class of racing licence that the FIA issues -- and how the races must be held on Grade One tracks -- the highest grade rating that the FIA issues for tracks.
It further describes how "Formula One cars are the world's fastest regulated road-course racing cars, owing to high cornering speeds achieved by generating large amounts of aerodynamic downforce, most of which is generated by front and rear wings, as well as underbody tunnels."
The reason why I think that all men can get something out of watching F1 The Movie is that Brad Pitt's character is the man who literally had the drive to reach for and reach the top, until an unexpected life-changing accident took him out of the game, and off the track. This is something that I think men can resonate with, who have had their true aspirations cut short, and ended up having to give up on their dreams, and move on to mediocre things that they wouldn't otherwise have settled for, had life not seemed stacked against them making their dreams and callings a reality.
I asked my man if F1 The Movie was based on a true story early in to us starting the film, and we discovered that it wasn't, so we were able to watch it with the knowing that the main character wasn't based on a real person, and that the plotline was fictitious, and put out for a different purpose.
My man taught me that no movie is put out for no reason, so I was curious to discover what F1 The Movie would reveal to us.
Formula 1 Racing Significance
Reflecting on the movie actually makes me think that Formula 1 racing was chosen as a metaphor for people's drive and willpower to succeed, and that the race track represents the path of life. When people are on the path that they were made for and born to do, those who choose to follow what drives them might be seen as cocky and reckless to those who do not, while I view it more as the man being confident enough to take risks that others don't -- which can sometimes come with crippling setbacks that might even make them lose hope in restarting, after receiving such decisive setbacks. I think that the fact that the movie focused on Formula 1 racing was very fitting, since my man told me that, back when he was a kid, car racing was the highest-paid sport in the world, because of the danger involved, and the very real potential for injury and death from participating.
See below for a photo of a first-person perspective of the experience of racing on a Formula 1 track, taken from the F1 movie's IMBD page.
I think that the Formula 1 racing theme symbolizes the significance of being the one brave enough to go for your dreams (choosing to strive toward the pinnacle of what life is all about), and all the challenges that arise from this, and the dangers that are thrown your way to dissuade you from doing so, to try to get you to give up and give in to the mundane life that The Matrix makes most people believe is the only way to live. Living in a way that is true to you and your life purpose can be as dangerous as Formula 1 racing, in many people's eyes.
In the movie, Sonny is known as the never-was -- the washed-up man who tried for his dreams, but was foiled from reaching them, only to be forced to waste his talents on driving taxis, and participating in peanut races that he didn't even care enough to keep the trophies he won for.
Sonny mentions near the end of the film that he discovered that it made him feel happy just to be able to drive anything, and that this was why he took on jobs like cab driving -- which demonstrates how driving was the thing that he was supposed to be doing, as it was what he truly loved and enjoyed doing, regardless of what he got paid for doing it.
He reveals later that he drove with the hope of one day being able to reach the state where he feels like he is flying again, which was how he used to feel while he was driving, back before his huge accident happened -- and what he has never been able to attain again, but sorely wishes to.
I think that this is a metaphor for men who have been derailed from their path -- yearning to go back to the state that they were in before the derailment happened, so that they can once again taste the invincibility they felt back when they were still (at what they believed) at "the top of their game," like Sonny did, before he was made to fall.
I truly believe that it is during moments like this that God allows the devil to seemingly crush all hope of us achieving our ultimate dreams, to see how badly we really want them. He allows the devil to take everything away, and turn our once-fans into mocking critics and haters, to test our drive to continue, despite having no claps, no luck, and seemingly no hope, with the whole world turned against us.
Do you dare to try again, when a second chance -- no matter how small or impossible -- presents itself?
That is the opportunity that Sonny is presented with, after having to waste the prime years of his life getting used to mediocrity and failure, even having gone through three divorces. His talent clearly remains (evidenced by him scoring wins with his innovative driving on random teams), but he is now driving purely for money, to allow him to survive, rather than letting his driving bring him back to life.
Sonny's friend, Ruben, who loves racing, has invested everything into a racing team that can't get out of the rut of finishing last. Despite having a talented rookie driver, nothing about the team is up to snuff, and Sonny's friend turns to Sonny as a last resort, to try to turn things around. No one on the team believes in Sonny, especially because his friend only asked him to join the team after having been rejected by 28 to 29 other drivers (if I remember correctly) that he had already offered the position to.
On top of that, the rookie driver, Joshua Pearce, is threatened by Sonny's character, and belittles and throws cheap shots at him whenever he can, to try to assert his dominance. This really annoyed me to watch, because Sonny at numerous times sacrificed his own car, positioning, and optics to help the kid rise in the rankings, which allowed the team to finally place high enough to renew interest in keeping it from being disbanded -- while the younger teammate kept undermining Sonny's authority, and even sabotaged himself, by not listening to advice that Sonny had given him, and ended up getting into a bad accident because of this, but blaming Sonny for it.
"Darkness" of Arrogant "Think-They-Know" Youth vs. "Lightness" of Wisdom Hard-Earned Through Lived Experiences
Disregarding the issue of race, I wonder if the dark skin of the second driver was in part chosen to symbolize the darkness of young adults who care so much about looking "adult," "alpha," and in control, that they close themselves off to the light (symbolized by Sonny's light skin) of wisdom that comes with age and experience. See the photo to the side of Joshua and Sonny together, in a shot that I feel captures this dichotemy.
Because Sonny has been in the kid's position before (having himself been an up-and-coming driver with the talent to make it big, but also a big ego and pride to go with it), and knows what it is like, he continually tries to help Joshua get his first win, but the kid can't see it, because he is too busy competing with Sonny, and worried about failing out of his first shot, and having his dream die without even having his real talent be fully seen or recognized.
I think that this movie simultaneously depicts those who are at the start of their drive toward their dreams, and those who are going at it, despite experiencing all the setbacks that life has thrown at them -- to see if the setbacks will smash their drive completely, or if their drive will overcome them.
It is impossible to analyze this movie in a meaningful way without including spoilers, so please stop reading now if you want to watch the movie first, without our closer look at the events spoiling its ending for you.You may even want to watch F1 The Movie a second time, after reading our review, to see if you see it differently, with our commentary in mind.
**SPOILER ALERT**
STOP READING NOW, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE ENDING OF THE MOVIE SPOILED!!!
In the final race, where the younger finally stops distrusting the wisdom of the older, this results in the two driving in a partnership that is as beautiful as a ballet -- in a harmony that sees them work together in an unstoppable way, that even produces miracles, to help them accomplish the most satisfying win possible. See side-by-side shots of Joshua and Sonny while they are driving, in the photo to the side.
Regaining the Feeling of Flying
The movie ends with Sonny trying to sacrifice his car to let the younger guy win for his team, but the younger guy gets into an accident that allows Sonny to take the lead, and finally achieve his dream of feeling like flying while driving.
Winning the actual race is just the cherry on top, as Sonny has finally regained the drive and zest for life that were what he had truly been striving for. As my man always says, "as within, so without," and Sonny's ultimate internal win coincided with and helped him achieve his external win of winning one of the biggest car races in the world, proving to everyone that he was "back," and had finally "made it," and had proven himself and his ability to drive and achieve to everyone.
Two Comebacks
It was also a major win for his friend, who had placed all his bets on Sonny when he invited him to join his racing team. My man pointed out that the movie was actually a comeback story about Sonny's friend also, which I hadn't realized, but totally see is the case now, after my man explained it to me.
My man remembered how the back story of the friend was explained when he approached Sonny to invite him onto the team. I totally hadn't caught it, but the friend apparently used to race against Sonny, back before his accident, and had become friends with him through racing. The friend had made a lot of money and had become very rich, and had decided that he wanted to relive his glory days by making a racing team of his own, and living vicariously through it, and so invested everything he had into it. Unfortunately, the team never won, ever, and the situation was so bad that the friend was on the verge of being forced by his investors to sell the team, and lose everything with it. He wanted so badly for it to succeed, and Sonny's performance would literally make or break his dream of having his own winning team. See the photo above, that I feels captures their feelings of frustration at trying to reach their dreams, at a time when they seemed impossible.
The Importance of True Friendship, Loyalty, and Integrity
The strength of the pair's loyalty and friendship was shown on the part of them both. 
On Sonny's end, after the team started winning (thanks to Sonny's genius), and Sonny's value was again being recognized by others, a member of his friend's team, Banning, sabotaged the team, to try to ruin its chances of winning, in a bid to force the team to be sold off for a cheap price, so that he could poach Sonny to work on a team that he had already planned and lined up for the next year, as its trainer.
This was at a time when Sonny's friend had told Sonny that he was off the team, after realizing that the injuries that Sonny had suffered in his big accident had been so severe that he really shouldn't have been doing any kind of racing whatsoever. The friend explained that he would never have asked Sonny to join his team if he had known how much danger it would pose to Sonny's severely injured body to do so, showing how he put his friend's life before his own interests in winning and keeping his team -- willing to sacrifice both, to ensure Sonny's safety.
Sonny ended up returning on the race day, and was greeted warmly by his friend (see the photo to the side).
Sonny explained to his friend that getting to drive was more important to him than living without having embraced his second chance. So his friend, realizing how much it meant to Sonny, agreed to let him race, despite the danger to Sonny's life that it posed.
Before getting into his car, Sonny caught the attention of the man who had offered him the dirty deal that would have involved him betraying his friend, and flipped him off as his response -- demonstrating his loyalty, integrity, and commitment to his friend and team.
It was a beautiful victory for faith, friendship, and not letting each other down, when Sonny won the race.
My man pointed out that that was why such an emphasis was placed on the scene where the trophy was awarded, as both Sonny and his friend were the ones to receive the trophy in front of everyone, and held the trophy up together, symbolizing how it was a triumph for both of them -- who had given it their everything to achieve their dreams, and were finally rewarded, for still having faith and continuing to strive toward their dreams, even when all the odds seemed stacked against them. See the photo below of them celebrating their victory on the winners' platform.
Both of them needed each other to make their comebacks possible, and it was because they went all in for it, with their hearts pure, consciences clear, and integrity intact, that their win was something that no one could deny or stand against.
I think that the win also symbolized how honesty, integrity, and goodness are rewarded. Sonny demonstrated even more integrity by having a huge sum of money delivered right before the start of the final race, to a reporter who had always heckled Sonny and hated on him. See an image of the delivered money below.
Sonny had earlier made a bet with the reporter about his racing -- that might have even been viewed as empty guy banter, that I had already forgotten about, as I hadn't thought that he'd been serious when he made it. The fact that Sonny still honored a bet with someone who had been such a jerk to him probably even earned him the reporter's respect. It certainly stuck out to me how Sonny demonstrated that he was a man of his word (just like my man is ).
Earning Recognition Through Giving Proper Recognition
Sonny's integrity and good heart were made undeniably obvious even to his worst enemies, and even to his younger racing partner who had blamed Sonny for his accident, who later confessed to his mother that Sonny, in fact, had not been responsible for his accident, and had actually tried to give him good advice that he had ignored, at the time of his accident. It was nice to see the young racer acknowleding, respecting, and recognizing Sonny's true intentions and contributions -- and working with him, rather than against him -- and, in doing so, finally having his own skills recognized as well.
The younger racer even cared enough to look for and run after Sonny, when Sonny was about to leave after the race, to inquire about his future plans. It was nice to see the once too-proud young man start to lose his attitude, and become a better person, through what his experiences with Sonny had taught him.
Win For Women
There is also a side plot about Sonny's new love interest, Kate (see the photo to the side) -- the technical director for the team, who lost her job and husband to the dream that Sonny's friend had sold her, of the thrill of being able to work on constantly improving cars in such a way where every partial-second saved by each change could make a difference, and she could be the first female lead to help achieve that.
Women should appreciate how this woman, who gave up her career and man, was able to fulfill her dream, thanks to Sonny, her new man. On top of the physical support she provided Sonny, through improving the design of the team's cars, and filling his sexual needs, she also tried to help mend his relationship with his younger partner, and also tried to help Sonny emotionally, by trying to help him open up about the issues that were psychologically plaguing him.
"Teamwork Makes the Dream Work"
I think that the theme of teamwork is also hugely explored in F1 The Movie. Each person on the team had a different dream (Sonny: to prove to everyone that he had what it took to win the biggest F1 race, and to be able to feel free and like he was flying again while driving; the younger driver: to prove his talent to the world; the friend: to make his own racing team a winning one; and the woman: to prove that she could design a winning car).
At the start of the movie, their dreams did not really encompass one another's, as they all had haters, chips on their shoulders, and something individual to prove. Sonny's arrival brought them all together, as they began to care for one another, and realize that their individual dreams were all aligned, and part of a bigger dream -- which allowed them to finally understand one another, and trust one another, and work with the magic that full trust in your team, and real teamwork, can bring.
I would go so far as to say that the reason for Sonny's accident was that, before it, he was just a punk kid racing for himself and for his ego, like his younger teammate had been doing. Being forced to race for a team that needed him, and for a win that he needed as much as they did -- now that the opportunity to race in such a big event now meant much more to him -- forced everyone to have real skin in the game.
However, as I explained, it was only when the characters stopped caring only about their own skin, and started considering each other, and thinking like and being a real team, that they were able to come together and fulfill everyone's dreams.
The Significance of "Sonny"
I believe that the name "Sonny" was not chosen at random, but as a variation of the word "sunny." Sonny's addition to the team is like a bright sun. He brings light and optimism to a dark and seemingly hopeless situation, but he can also be harsh like the sun, and doesn't mince words, or back down, or bow.
Like a warm sun, Sonny's arrival brings faith to a group of good people who have reached desperate situations, who have all but given up hope that their dreams will be fulfilled, and are questioning the choices that they have made in their lives. Instead of accepting themselves as failures and rejects, they become reinvested in reaching their potentials, and, as a team, advance from the bottom to the top, until they reach their big victory together, thanks to the faith that Sonny has sparked in them.
Sonny changes the game with the new mindset that he imbues the team with, telling the technical director to design the cars for combat, and when she asks him, "How am I supposed to make that safe?" telling her, "Who said anything about safe?" symbolizing how you can't play it safe when you actually want to win at life. Like my man always says, if you have a Plan B or C to fall back on, then Plan C is what you'll end up with. You can only plan to win, in order to end up actually winning.
The (In)Significance of Time
Time is also an important theme in the movie. Time in the movie is contrasted by demonstrating how literally every bit of even a second counted, while showing how each character had lost so much time and life, while being so close to the chopping block with every lost second. One of the film's official promotional posters (see the image to the side) even captures this theme, saying, "Every second counts."
That Sonny's team manages to win shows that time is irrelevant when it comes to fulfilling your dreams. It doesn't matter how old you are, or at what stage of your life you are in -- if you keep striving and driving, you'll eventually reach your time, and fly.
This is captured by how Sonny's win is filmed: they stop showing the time, and instead give you a first-person look at what it feels like to be Sonny finally reaching the state that he has so tireless searched for.
It feels like he has reached a zone, now that he's finally doing what he's supposed to do. It's silent, surreal, and dream-like. It gives you a taste of how peaceful and at peace with yourself you can be, when you finally do what you feel called to.
Choosing "Flying"
After winning the race, Sonny goes somewhere out far away, in Mexico, where he accepts a low-paying job, driving a vehicle that lets him feel like he is flying when he drives it.
My man pointed out how the movie ends with Sonny choosing to do the thing that made him happiest, despite it not making him a lot of money. I totally would have missed it, since I hadn't recognized its connection to Sonny's "flying" dream.
Winning was not about the trophy, but about finding himself again.
The Numbers "9" and "7"
One of the movie posters hints at the wider purpose to this movie, in depicting two F1 cars with the numbers "9" and "7" on them (see below).
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If you know anything about numerology, 9 is the number of completion and humanitarianism -- of someone who has lived all the numbers before it, and shares the wisdom that they have gained in a way that helps others. The number 7 is closely linked to spirituality and God.
I think that featuring the numbers on the movie poster quietly communicates that this movie should be watched on a deeper level, that is meant to endow life wisdom borne from experience -- the way that Sonny tries to impart wisdom to his younger teammate, who at first, not understanding this, refuses to accept it, but, when he finally does open himself to it, finally understands what a gift Sonny is really sharing with him. The 7 shows that the lessons run even deeper than this, on a higher spiritual level -- if one makes the effort to make the connections, with the intentions of sharing them as a 9 would, to help humanity with.
My man and I both have strong 9 energy in our numerology, and I honestly didn't even really pay close attention to the car numbers while I watching the movie, so I can't say how often the 9 and 7 were featured, but I wonder if these deeper meanings were what drew us to review this particular movie first, out of the countless that we have watched together.
The Deeper Meaning to "F1"
In fact, the fact that the movie is called "F1" (short for Formula 1) might be hinting that the path taken by the film's characters, in choosing to follow their dreams against all odds, and doing so as a team, is the "Formula 1" -- the only "formula" or path to achieving "one" -- oneness with oneself, one's purpose, and one's life.
As the Formula 1 Wikipedia description I paraphrased earlier said, "formula" in the name refers to the set of rules that all participating cars must follow."
We might view the team's winning path to victory as a guideline of dos and don'ts to follow, on the road of life.
Interestingly, Sonny's character always finds ways to bend rules without actually breaking them, which might be seen as another takeaway from this movie -- that rules can be reinterpreted by those who understand that they can be, and are able to do so wisely, rather than selfishly or foolishly.
My man also thinks that "Formula 1" might be seen as another way of saying "Plan A," as a reminder that you can only achieve your dreams if you make your Plan A your only plan, and let nothing keep you from it or stop you from achieving it.
There is so much to take away from this movie, when you watch it as a form of inspiration and source of wisdom, rather than as a simple "car movie."
That's why it's a total gem for us.
Review:
Pros:
-good story line
-lots of good lessons and takeaway messages
-good acting
-big celebrity actor (Brad Pitt), if you like that
-nice pacing -- not too fast or slow
-characters you can connect with
-inspiring story
-good action
-multiple plotlines with different characters coming together at the ending
-satisfying ending
-doesn't feel like the story is rushed
-excellent underdog movie for adults
Cons:
-guy movie that girls might not care about or understand
-annoying rival character
-might be hard to follow for people who don't know anything about car racing
-might not understand the significance of the main character's story, if you haven't lived experiences similar to his
-people with short attention spans might find it too long, running at 2 hours and 35 minutes
-not much eye candy for people who watch movies in part for the hot celebrities
Gem or Junk?
For Us:
Gem -- 4 stars and a half out of 5
My man and I really enjoyed F1 The Movie, and it managed to bring tears to my eyes, and make me really feel for the main character's story line. I thought that the story really matched my man's experience, and I also feel like it could resonate with a lot of other men.
As a source of inspiration, I think that the F1 movie is worth all men watching, especially since it has cars and things that most guys like in it, anyway.
Anyone who loves underdog or comeback movies should definitely go see it.
The acting is also good and realistic.
I really recommend taking the time to see it!
Gems For Who?
1. People who like underdog movies.
2. People who like comeback movies.
3. People who like great car movies.
4. People who like car racing movies.
5. People who like action movies.
6. People who like racing movies.
7. People who like sports movies.
8. People who like dramas.
9. People who like cars or racing.
10. People who like F1 movies.
11. Adult males.
12. Males in general.
13. Girls who like cars, racing, and/or car racing movies.
14. Brad Pitt fans.
15. Formula 1 racing fans.
16. People who like inspirational movies.
17. People who need motivation to go for their dreams.
18. Car racers.
Conclusion:
I felt really inspired after watching F1 The Movie -- enough to write a review about it. For that reason alone, I think that it's worth you watching.
Honestly, we could have rewatched the F1 movie, and gone even more in depth -- analyzing quotes and more -- but I think that this review is already long enough, and that our general overview of the symbols, metaphors, and themes should be enough to help you get a little more out of watching the film.
As we stated at the start of this F1 movie review, we wanted to share the things that my man and I discussed after watching the film, as well as the later realizations that we had about the movie. We decided that this alone made the review a lot longer than we expected, so we decided to leave our F1 movie review at that.
You can check out other F1 movie reviews for detailed breakdowns of the other aspects of the movie.
My man pointed out that Apple only just started making films a few years ago, and this is the first Apple movie we've watched -- but certainly not the last, if it continues to put out quality movies like F1 The Movie.
I haven't seen a lot of car movies, so I can't say if the F1 movie ranks up there with the best car movies, or even best car racing movies, in terms of action, etc., but I have seen a lot of movies about underdogs, and sports underdog movies tend to be some of the movies I enjoy the most, and I'd say that the F1 movie is one of the best underdog movies that I've seen for adults.
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