Seminar 2: Senna Documentary



Senna is a documentary is about Ayrton Senna who was a Brazilian racing driver. He won three Formula One world championships. This documentary showed viewers the life of racing driver. It did not end well for Senna because he died while racing in the San Marino Grand Prix. It was a very unfortunate accident.
This documentary is an observational which means this it had consistent interviews and was in chronological order. Even though, Senna was not alive to be a part of this documentary, the directors used interviews of family members, friends, teammates. I believe that this is a very truthful documentary because it would be hard to change film tapes that have already been made. Senna died in 1994 and the movie came out in 2010. When watching the documentary, you can tell the difference of film from the 1990s to present day. I think all of these ideas that I have mention makes the documentary more reliable because the directors chose to use any film that Ayrton Senna was in to create this film.
There were some representation of gender and national identity in Senna. The representation of gender in this documentary was masculine. There were really no women in Senna. However, when you did see women they were being objectified. There was a scene that Senna kissed the female that was interviewing him. Another scene where Senna was on a talk show around Christmas time and he could not say his wish out loud. I interpreted this meaning to be something that he wanted to do with the female host. Instead, Senna got a bunch of lipstick kiss marks on his face. There is one more scene that was not surprising at all which had a female dropping the flag to start the race. Also, you never once saw a female racing driver, but I know that you won’t see one for a while. I think people saw being a racing driver very dangerous.
The next representation in Senna was national identity or nationhood. As I said earlier in this blog post, Senna is from Brazil. After every race he won, he would take a lap around the track waving the Brazilian flag. Brazil almost saw Senna as a god. He had a lot of power and everyone in Brazil loved him.

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