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The genre comes with a judge built in, the scoreboard. These films take it out of its hands.
Sports cinema comes with a judge built in: the score. It could always let the scoreboard do the talking, and the fifteen films in this series take that out of its hands without switching it off — the verdict is still there, still readable, and it stops being the measure of what we watched. The first volume moves the finish line: in two cases the cup never arrives, in a third it goes to someone who had not led the race. The second decides the worth of an athlete off the field, in the reason he runs, in the rival who works as his mirror, in the version of his story the world chooses to believe. The third takes the most codified formula cinema has and gets five different objects out of it: performed straight, taken seriously all the way, watched with a smile, emptied one box at a time, doubled. A full course in how to use a genre everybody thinks they already know.
Three cars from the same team wait for each other so as to cross the line together, and the driver who had led for hours ends up second on a technicality. Five films that declare out loud, almost always before the race even starts, what they will count as a victory.
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A time, a score, the vote of a panel: the result is always there, and it arrives when the important thing has already been decided in an office, in a hospital room, in front of a camera. What an athlete is worth gets settled away from the field.
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The most codified genre cinema has, used in five different ways. Performed straight like a scale without a slip. Believed in all the way, with only the prize changed. Smiled at without ever being disrespected. Stripped of its promised pleasures one at a time. Doubled, until it produces an ending that single road could not contain.
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Three volumes on a genre everyone assumes is predictable and that turns out to be the most elastic. One moves the finish line, one takes the verdict off the field, one tests the formula five ways. Fifteen films to work on personal stakes, on training that changes a character, on rivalries and on mentors.