Lamborghini - The Man Behind the Legend

My brain surely works in some mysterious ways, because I was closely following Frank Grillo's stories when he was shooting this movie (during that time, I was living in a Marvel haze, my previous obsession before F1), then upon reaching my F1/car era, my brain switched off, and I completely forgot the existence of this movie.

I don't even remember how I found it again, and of course it is not available to stream on any platform in Hungary, so I had to "rent it". I didn't watch the trailer, because I was going to watch the movie anyway...

In general, I think it's similar to Ferrari in a lot of ways, mainly that it focuses on the person, instead of the cars or any kind of racing, even less so than Ferrari did. This is partly because Lamborghini (and his full name, Ferruccio Lamborghini, keeps changing to Fettuccine in my mind) started his career with making tractors. As a pretty recent car enthusiast, I was at the point where I knew nothing of Lamborghini, besides its existence, the fact that their factory is near Bologna (that I didn't visit but is on my list) and that their current cars have a wavelike shape and a seemingly angry front, that I am not really a fan of.

It takes 2 thirds of the movie, when we finally get to the part regarding the cars, and Mr. Ferrari plays an important role to get there (kind of like in Ford vs Ferrari, his success makes others want to make better cars), and of course he is portrayed like the bad guy (I mean I'm not sure he is portrayed as a good guy in his own movie). Ferruccio was very much focused on his success, producing stuff carrying his name was his obsession, and he was shown as a person who prioritizes this above everything else including his loved ones. This is basically the story of the movie.

This just makes me think - to be really, truly, exceptionally successful, do you need to sacrifice those around you? He had a pretty solid family background, with people who supported him, and went out of their way to help him and be there for him. So it's not like he did it alone - but in the end, he ended up alone. I think this is, in some ways, the moral of the story - even his son asks him in the last shots if it was worth it for him.

I liked the movie mostly, though I could have preferred a bit more car content. :D And in American produced movies that are about people outside of the US, I always find it weird that the actors speak English but with the accent of that country, which happened here as well.