Ford v Ferrari: Making America great again

American writer, Ernest Hemingway, best known for extolling the virtues of “machismo,” called only three sports "real sports" and his famous quote, “There are only three sports bullfighting, motor racing, mountaineering; all the rest are merely games,” has gone down the annals of history. Little surprise then that American car manufacturer, Ford, after being slighted by Ferrari, chose the motor racing route to humble the Italian car manufacturer, at Le Mans, to show them the mettle that they were truly made of.  It is this story that Twentieth Century Fox’s latest film, Ford v Ferrari, tells, and it does so magnificently. Calling the film, Epic, would be an understatement; not only because the film ticks all the boxes for good cinematography, superb story-telling and great sound engineering, but because it does so without being OTT – and this fine balance has been skillfully achieved with just the right dosages of scenes that oscillate between road and track and the boardroom. Oodles of old-fashioned goodness, the kind that never goes out of style, has been beautifully juxtaposed against the evilness of Machiavellian schemers, however, what truly drowns the noises from the boardroom are the sounds of different race car engines, in different states of tune – an aural treat for