[Movies] Senna Movie

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Originally Posted by chillibowl

Prost made a comment, something along the lines of how do you relate/talk to someone who has this type of faith. the political Prost is painted as the 'bad guy' and the religious Senna is depicted, particularly post race Brazil 91, as a quasi sort of religious figure laid out with hands nailed to the wheel. maybe im reading too much into it but those images combined with him talking about his faith (a lot) naturally lead me there and i found it a bit off putting.

i think that's a unfortunate mixture of the way his following in brazil was depicted and the way his faith and religion was introduced. i really don't think senna was under the impression he was a man of god and that he was leading people in a spiritual way (that's blasphemy, for starters), but that it was his duty as both a human being and a good christian to help people.

his spirituality, particularly behind the wheel in my opinion allowed him to drive without fear because god would look after him. fear operates on so many levels in the subconscious that it enabled him to do a lap without self preservation kicking in. the only person capable of that level of total disregard to the barriers and consequences now is maldonado, but that's because he just has no intelligence at all to give him the fear in the first place, and thus comes from a totally different angle and direction. totally incomparable, and just used as an example. monaco polarises that disregard and belief compared to other circuits.

that lack of fear of senna (commonly portrayed as invincibility and arrogance) coupled with his insane speed made him who he was. prost, being the scientist, academic, and logical one, couldn't bring anything to the table that would bring him anywhere near that level of... commitment in the car. if you think about senna's arrogance on track without his spirituality he seems rather like a schumacher type. we only know he isn't because he was open and honest enough to try and explain how he managed that incredible lap of monaco.

the comparison between the spiritual and the academic and professor is actually a pretty strong theme in taoism, which is kind of funny considering the spiritual in this case was a devout christian

that article strider linked to is absolutely superb, well worth a read (and still bookmarked and reread regularly chez bella)