The Chick Flick: Senna

[Excerpt from Guru Kaur's blog on the Be the Woman... Private Online Community for women...]

This is the chick flick which every woman must watch to learn what a man is. If you think that Senna is going to be about a man with deserved god-like status then you're wrong. This is a film about relationships. Ayrton Senna is one of those men who was pure man, pure spirit, pure universal mind in service to God. His death, aged 34, means that he will forever be young to the millions who recognise his extraordinary, outstanding, maverick, divine nature. Here is his story told in one of the best documentaries that I've ever seen with such sensitivity and subtlety that watching it became a life-enhancing experience. It's worth saying that this is a boys' film too with all that engine revving and politics so don't think you're going to have to watch this in secret; the soundtrack's pretty spectacular too.

The film starts with explaining the sheer beauty of a racing car and how racing is about a man and a machine, firmly putting on the starting grid the whole allegory of the spirit of a car. Swap the word car for woman and you're pretty much on the way to understanding how the Universe operates. Here's a key quotation from one of the journalists interviewed:

One thing that a driver hates above all else is a car which changes its behaviour in the middle of a corner... most cars either understeer or oversteer, but really bad cars have both, so that they change from one to the other in the blink of an eye, in the middle of the corner, when you least want that to happen.

This is very disturbing for a driver because it destroys his faith in the integrity of the car and that's absolutely crucial for a driver to develop that complete trust in the car's temperament.

Learn more about the Be the Woman... Private Online Community »