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Michael Schumacher: Netflix documentary celebrates F1 great​

He was a controversial figure during his Formula 1 days, but a new documentary reveals a more intimate side to the F1 great

Michael Schumacher deserves this. The seven-time world champion is a true sporting colossus and should be lauded as such, despite the controversies that peppered his 20-year Formula 1 career. Like Maradona in football, the flaws are integral to the story and Schumacher fired deep emotions on both sides of the love-hate divide because of his actions on and off the field of play. But whichever side you take, no one can deny he will be forever remembered as a grand prix game-changer. This new documentary, simply titled ‘Schumacher’ and available now via Netflix, is long overdue.

The trouble, of course, is how to celebrate and mark his life with the correct tone and tense when he has disappeared from public view. In the wake of the devastating head injury he suffered in a skiing crash nearly eight years ago, it’s so easy to speak about him in the past tense, and yet he’s still alive, even if his existence now is difficult beyond comprehension. What a terrible situation for him and for his poor family, who are understandably fiercely protective of his privacy. Schumacher was never comfortable in the public glare, but now he’s strictly off limits for very different reasons.

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He was a controversial figure during his Formula 1 days, but a new documentary reveals a more intimate side to the F1 great
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Think Schumacher is on the cards for next Thursday

Watched Where dreams go to die last night - 8/10

I have run a couple of marathon's but this takes madness/determination to a new level.

 
L-Dog said:
Think Schumacher is on the cards for next Thursday

Watched Where dreams go to die last night - 8/10

I have run a couple of marathon's but this takes madness/determination to a new level.

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There's another documentary about the Barkley Marathon that came out a few years before this one which is also worth a watch (not sure which is the better of the two as I haven't seen Where dreams go to die yet).

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L-Dog said:
Think Schumacher is on the cards for next Thursday

Watched Where dreams go to die last night - 8/10

I have run a couple of marathon's but this takes madness/determination to a new level.

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Watching this now, hectic :eek:
 
JuliusSeizure said:
The Volunteers which is available on YouTube is a fantastic two-part documentary on a group of Western medical volunteers who helped the Kurds fight ISIS in the height of ISIS rule over Syria. The combat footage is brilliant but spoiler alert, there are some disturbing scenes which show injury and death.

It captures the extremity and carnage of that war in detail.

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Thanks for the share, managed to watch last night, hectic how things escalate towards end of part 1 when they are allowed closer to the front line.
 
Finished the Schumacher documentary just released on Netflix this week. Brilliant. Mick (his son), more or less gives away the current condition of his father. In lieu of it now being almost ten years since his accident, he's probably not getting better and more or less died in 2013.
 
blowdart18 said:
Thanks for the share, managed to watch last night, hectic how things escalate towards end of part 1 when they are allowed closer to the front line.
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All I will say is that there is one heartbreaking scene at the end of 2. It shows how life could instantly end at that time.
 
This is shot so beautifully, epic cinematography - never-mind the sound design.

Every single shot could be a photograph.

 
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JuliusSeizure said:
Finished the Schumacher documentary just released on Netflix this week. Brilliant. Mick (his son), more or less gives away the current condition of his father. In lieu of it now being almost ten years since his accident, he's probably not getting better and more or less died in 2013.
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What does it look like his condition is, I'm assuming near a vegetable?
 
Mental capacity unreliable, but not fully competent
Seizures, controlled medically
Physically varies, but poor ambulatory ability
A friend runs a catering business in Paris and overheard some Neurological Physiotherapists discussing this and was pretty sure, due to the inferences, that they were talking about MS
 
airborne said:
What does it look like his condition is, I'm assuming near a vegetable?
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The family have not released any update and we have to respect that as Schumacher was a private guy off the track and this is most likely what he would have wanted.

However, it is most probably bad. If he was able to still communicate, he would have almost certainly been at one or two of Mick's races and that has not happened. In the documentary, Mick also speaks about missing out on experiences with his Dad. If one does not know about Schumi's background and condition, one could easily get the impression that Schumi is dead.

He is probably in a vegetative state.
 
I found this extremely interesting. What's more, Youtube threw it at me because I fell asleep whatching something else and when I woke up it was playing so I restarted it to watch from the beginning.


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WaxLyrical said:
Almost surreal when they finish.
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Even more surreal, the last guy who finished under the time in the documentary is actually the last person to finish it since, there have been 4 more events since and no one else has managed to complete it.
 
Cray said:
Even more surreal, the last guy who finished under the time in the documentary is actually the last person to finish it since, there have been 4 more events since and no one else has managed to complete it.
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That's cause they saw that look on his face and already felt defeat.
 
The_Ogre said:
I found this extremely interesting. What's more, Youtube threw it at me because I fell asleep whatching something else and when I woke up it was playing so I restarted it to watch from the beginning.

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I can't remember when last I fell asleep when watching something, University days I think. Were you drunk?
 
I watched the Bruce Jenner one from Untold

It was a brilliant, like her / him
 
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