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by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

I decided to treat myself with a proper cinematic experience today, and went to the cinema to watch the 2025 Joseph Kosinski film F1 starring Brad Pitt.

As you probably figured out, the movie is about racing. It is kind of similar to Ford v Ferrari where you have an underdog team trying to compete on a race with Ferrari to win the race. In this case though, Ferrari was not the fastest car on the track. Only second fastest. The fastest one was from Red Bull. And not just from Red Bull. It was Lewis Hamilton who is an actual real F1 driver, who also played himself in the film and who was one of the producers on the film.

The movie is about this guy with a very good driving talent. Like some of the stuff Brad Pitt's character does in the film, makes me understand why Kosinski didn't want Tom Cruise for this movie. And yet despite his talent, he stumbles upon himself a lot, does mistakes, and gets really misunderstood by a lot of people. And in addition to that, he does this not for money. As I'm saying: F1 is surprisingly relatable.

There is this other driver played by Damson Idris who might just be the most perfect character to capture the other half of the audience, to make them feel related. Very good characters. Like you kind of expect from a Joseph Kosinski film to be this extra polished. But every-time somehow it is surprising.

Speaking of which. Kosinski's main strength is that he knows how to achieve insanely good level of flow without doing anything interesting with the camera. Like every single shot in the movie, the camera is either static or moving at a constant speed in one direction. Super basic stuff. Yet in the edit it somehow works marvelously.

There are a lot of other characters in the film that have arcs, even though those characters seem not as important. For example the Pit Stop screw-gun girl played by Callie Cooke. Why am I moved to tears from her arc even though she is like only maybe 5 minutes in the whole movie? Or like the Kerry Condon's character of the engineer. Like she could be there as just an engineer, but she forms a crucial part of the team. Or even like the mom of the second driver, or the evil businessman. Or even Javier Bardem's character. On paper it should be a small role, yet Kosinski goes for an Oscar-winner because of how intense the arc of this character is.

You know I like racing movies. I even made one myself. But I would say that: F1 is a hell of a good racing movie.

Happy Hacking!!!

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