*Not a drama review, just a record of personal experience*
To describe the experience of seeing the present in one sentence, I would like to quote a sentence that Robben, one of the players I admire the most, wrote to his younger self in 2017 and has always liked:
For everything that's about to happen, never forget that hunger.
Just finished watching episode 6 of "All or Nothing". In fact, after watching 3-4 episodes, I gave this documentary a score of 90+. The weak teams struggling on the line of survival went up and down in heaven and hell every second. The challenge of the arrogant genius, the competition between the teams because of the competition for suppliers, sponsorship, and financial resources, on and off the field. A variety of perspectives finally converged into the same spotlight in the sixth episode, playing on this extremely unhealthy financial field, but the viewing value has not decreased at all, or even a higher level. So while the memory is still fresh, write about the feelings of each episode.
E01: Gearing Up All to Play For
Ricardo is undoubtedly the first male protagonist, and he also has all the characteristics that a male protagonist should have: a warm family, a humble personality, and excellent strength. It's hard not to let people sigh when they laugh. Boys who love to laugh will not have bad luck.
But the perfect boy is not the soul of a good movie, so the essence of the E01 is actually on the Haas team. Guenther Steiner, a fiery and rigorous German, paired with two drivers who are more than successful, and a group of rookie pilots. No wonder the reporter also joked: "You only have 212 people? Mercedes has more people on vacation than that." However, it was this group of unreliable teams that won the most in history in qualifying. Good 5/6th place finish.
When Steiner called his boss Gene Haas for the first time, even though he couldn't hear the boss's answer, he subconsciously wanted to write a book for Haas that shines.
Yet a story is a story precisely because the ending has already been written. Open the wiki spoiler and see two dazzling RET & wheel. Both cars were put into the pit stop to replace the tires due to a mechanic's error, the tires were not properly installed, and they both retired in less than five minutes in two laps.
In the whole 2018 season, Haas only finished 4/5th in the Austrian Grand Prix, and he touched the edge of the podium, but if we can continue to open our eyes, we will know that the results of the 2019 season did not rise but fell, and the two drivers added up. Only seven points have been won, ninth among all ten teams. Life just won't get better, huh?
But the losing Steiner called Gene Haas, so firmly. He will not forget the hunter who will never be lost on the way from the mediocre mechanic to the team leader.
E02: The King of Spain
I had very little exposure to F1 before and I also heard about Alonso, and his compatriot Sainz Jr.. Sorry, after a few races all I remember is that he is a Spaniard, he It looks good, but it's blank.
The confrontation in this episode may have weakened compared to the first episode. Alonso showed a gentle predecessor, and Sainz Jr. was as refined and humble as he looked. Speaking of fourteen years ago, when I was a ten-year-old child, the idol I looked up to the most was Alonso, and then the camera turned to their group photo at that time. At the end of the Spanish Grand Prix, two local drivers took the national flag touring the field, which is a rare warm scene.
Little Sainz will enter Ferrari next season and go to the top team to replace the meritorious driver, which will be a step for him to become an idol.
One of the goddamn charms of competitive sports is that kids look up to the stars until they become stars themselves.
E03: Redemption
In terms of storyline, this episode is the closest half-hour to a commercial movie.
But the four words for commercial films mean, vulgar.
Ricciardo and the Red Bull team came to the brink, his teammate and opponent was Verstappen who was under 21 years old - or you can add a long list of attributes to him "The youngest driver to participate in F1, get points. The youngest driver to win the Grand Prix, the youngest driver to win the fastest lap, and the first Dutch driver to win the Grand Prix.”
For Red Bull Racing, it is not difficult to choose one or the other. Human beings will be biased towards the juvenile genius born out of nowhere.
For example, James Hunt, who is clearly loved by the writers in "Rush". After watching that racing movie, I wrote sarcastically in the short comment that everyone loves geniuses. (The unfinished half sentence is, I love it too.)
Then edit a series of conversations between Ricardo and Verstappen that are full of gunpowder flavors, and replay the scene where Verstappen changed lines twice, causing the two Red Bulls to crash and withdraw from the race. Verstappen's image stood up instantly. The plot behind it becomes very easy to guess. Ricciardo is invincible in Monaco, even if he encounters a breakdown at the last moment, Verstappen finished the race ninth because of a test crash, and Ricciardo completed his driver in the Red Bull team. redemption.
An inspirational film for an old boy, similar to the 2012 Chelsea Champions League trip.
But I don't want to use the word "vulgar" to describe this episode. Commercial movies are always man-made products by screenwriters and directors, while documentaries are about real people with "positive energy" on the field. In this competitive society that will be "optimized" after the age of 35, all stories of self-redemption are Easy to earn sympathy points.
E04: The Art of War
Immediately following the ending of the last commercial movie, E04 went the opposite way and came up with the most unvulgar answer: Yes, the old boy will be redeemed, but in the real world, there is only self-help, not people.
The unstoppable Red Bull team encountered a problem at the heart of the car: Can Renault's engine support Red Bull's performance ambitions? Retirement due to Renault's engine failure under several Red Bull's leading positions also led Red Bull to begin to review the deal, handing over the core of the car to one of its rivals, Renault. ?
Money can't buy victory, but victory means spending money. F1's way of survival is to compare who spends their money smarter, the core idea of this episode. For drivers, in competitive sports, food is the original sin; for teams, in racing paddocks, poverty is the original sin. Fortunately, our Red Bull team is not miserable to the point of poverty.
In the end, Ricciardo left Red Bull, Red Bull left Renault, and Renault left Sainz Jr. But once again, we turned our heads and looked at the standings for next season...
Ricciardo didn't have a good time at Renault, and his ranking was also falling while he was far from the podium; Red Bull and Toyota cooperated happily, and by consolidating the position of Verstappen's No. 1 driver, he finally sent him into the top three of the year; Sainz Jr. made a big push at McLaren and drove the Earth rover into the Mars group. The male protagonist doesn't get what he deserves, and life will always deceive everyone. It turns out that this is the fun of F1.
Seeing a little bit of the nasty fun that's popping up everywhere from the Netflix crew, what's going on...
The filming of this episode was pretty good. I looked at IMDB's diversity rating, and E03 and E04 were indeed the two highest-rated episodes, 8.4 and 8.2 respectively.
E05: Trouble at the Top
One of the most engrossing episodes I've personally watched, but I don't seem to be in tune with popular sentiment, and this episode has the lowest IMDB rating (but it's 7.6 as well).
(I want to write this episode carefully, to be continued...)
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