Just today, in hearing the doc Amy mentioned again, I came to an understanding of why I feel Amy is a superior doc and Senna is less so, and in this realization comes my enlightenment of why I don't particularly like sports.
I am okay with competition, but I am not okay with it as a lifestyle/occupation.
I understand that competition is inherent in both sports and entertainment. There are only so many dollars out there, and somebody has to get them, and... well may the best performer win.
But a singer or an actor is not the locus of competition. Their job is to be the best performer they can be, without directly opposing another performer. In fact, usually the best performances come when they work in cooperation with another performer. Even if they seem antagonistic on screen, in reality they are rooting for each other, because the better one performs, the better they do.
An excellent example is Amy and Tony Bennett singing together. She worshiped him and he deeply admired her and they weren't in opposition in any way. They both worked hard because they knew that together they could make a great song.
Yes, there is competition in entertainment, in movies and in song, but it isn't glorified. We wish it would get out of the way, because it's standing in the way of true talent.
But Senna is really about a competition which led to an antagonism between Senna and Prost. They believed that the other was cheating, that they didn't understand the hidden "rules" of the game, and the anger built over the way they played. That anger is seen in their performance, in their action. And that is inherent in most sport (gymnastics and some track events are different, more personal). Again, a little competition to spur the blood isn't a bad thing. But to base the whole performance on it makes it shallow, leading toward anger, and just frustrating to me. I just want excellent performances, not drama built upon a bad structure.
Yeah, I hate partisan politics too. It all irritates me.
Again, enjoy your sports. I don't have a moral objection to it so much as a personal objection. But now I understand what that objection is.