You'd think the world of junior go-karting would be a bit... insular.
Perhaps it is. But in the hands of documentary director Marshall Curry and his three speedy protagonists, it's also a world of discipline, purpose, socialising and competitiveness, where we get to know as much about the knotty world between childhood and adolescence as we do about racing turns.
Brandon Warren, 13, is one of the three drivers determined to follow his racing dream all the way to Nascar
Curry had the good luck, or skill, to chart his film Racing Dreams through the eyes of three characters - Annabeth, Brandon and Josh - whose charm, character, humour and expressiveness would have made them stars with or without the mini-chariot and their dreams of one day racing at Nascar.
"These drivers make a decision and they don't look back. That's how life goes - you make a decision and you don't look back.
Perhaps it is. But in the hands of documentary director Marshall Curry and his three speedy protagonists, it's also a world of discipline, purpose, socialising and competitiveness, where we get to know as much about the knotty world between childhood and adolescence as we do about racing turns.
Brandon Warren, 13, is one of the three drivers determined to follow his racing dream all the way to Nascar
Curry had the good luck, or skill, to chart his film Racing Dreams through the eyes of three characters - Annabeth, Brandon and Josh - whose charm, character, humour and expressiveness would have made them stars with or without the mini-chariot and their dreams of one day racing at Nascar.
"These drivers make a decision and they don't look back. That's how life goes - you make a decision and you don't look back.
- 10/1/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
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