Zoom zoom, my friends, it's time for the races and the countdown to the biggest awards ceremony for film production! I have this tradition where I watch all the Best Picture nominees. This year is no exception. Let's just say this was a solid start in the race to the awards ceremony. The title is pretty straightforward in what it offers, but I'll give you the Sparknotes version: we're taken back to the 1960s where Ford is one of the strongest car brands out there while Ferrari is close to shutting down its operations. Due to big egos and what seems like really bad business practices, Enzo Ferrari insults Henry Ford. This leads Ford to instruct his company to build the best race car out there - one that will beat Ferrari's impressively award-winning race car in an upcoming race. This is where Matt Damon, who plays Carroll Shelby (yes, that Shelby), and Christian Bale, who plays wild hilarious-British-accent-having, Ken Miles, come in. They're ordered to make the world's greatest race car to compete in one of the most infamous races there are the 24 Hours of Le Man, without dying first. This movie was interesting in seeing how the dynamics of capitalism work mix with the idea of innovation, even back then in the 60s, that continues today. Ford desperately wanted to beat Ferrari at the racing game, but for nearly half the movie that old man and his exec team kept fighting Shelby and Miles at every turn of innovation for what a great race car could be. That was the most frustrating part about watching this - and it spent a majority of the movie featuring this certain power struggle. I had to wonder if Ford v Ferrari was the right name several times while watching which I still can't tell if that's a good thing or not. I could understand in the grand scheme of things why this movie was nominated. It featured big-name powerhouses and a true story that many would connect with.
From my standpoint, it wasn't the greatest of the nominees because it wasn't groundbreaking to me. At times, this movie made the racing bits both too short (like at the beginning in Daytona) and then too long later. I understood why but also you're a movie about racing - please pick a speed and keep that energy throughout. This movie is not my first pick for winning the award but, hey, it's still a solid nomination nonetheless!
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