In the chapter of Thyssen. "That's Carpaccio. Isn't it?" He says to the 'Young Knight ...'. The series shows his hedonistic life, his 'kitsch' house, his children ...
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Towards the end of the fourth chapter of The Heart of Sergio Ramos , the documentary produced by Amazon Studios about the comfortable life of the soccer player and his sports worries during the past season, he and his brother René roam the rooms of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum at night from Madrid. René wants to show Sergio a room in which he plans to organize a private exhibition of his trophies and his memories, an act for friends and family to celebrate 15 years of sports career. But once there they take the opportunity to admire the collection of Tita Cervera. At some point, they are planted before a picture of the 16th century. "Carpaccio, isn't it?" Sergio comments in front of the imposing young knight before a landscape (Venice, 1510). "It's a pass. It seems they are alive, animals."
In the whole of Sergio Ramos' life, this is an anecdote without major importance. It is part of his recent interest in buying works of art - it is still a good way to invest money in a safe value, in a market where prices are always rising - but it is very important in the documentary that It has premiered this Friday on the Amazon Prime Video platform because its intention is to raise the story to category. Sergio Ramos' heart sighs for introducing us to a polyhedral man and in progressive progress towards his sophistication, which responds to his interest in learning day by day.
It doesn't matter if the thing stays half armed. Speaking of paintings, Ramos confesses that he is not considered "a wise man of art, far from it; I especially like modern art, contemporary a little more, but I also like classical." Miss the opportunity to bluff - this would have been fixed with a slight touch-up of the script that beats under most scenes, very little spontaneously - and talk, if necessary, of material painting or neoplasticism. He solves it with which to collect art is for him "a way to cultivate, to know History a little".
Tonight in the museum works as a good summary of the content of the series: presenting the footballer - whose sports career has an obvious interest, and his personal life an unquestionable morbidity - as an icon of the 21st century that embodies the virtues of the new masculinity. Ramos is a sensitive man, in continuous physical and intellectual training, full of affection, faithful to his own, honorable, hard-working and, of course, capable of appreciating beautiful things, whether they are the eyes of Pilar Rubio, the sky of Seville or a masterpiece of the Renaissance. At a certain time, a review of his long history of yellow cards and his hardness on the pitch is also made, but they are two sides of the same coin: in every sacrifice there is always pain, proper and foreign.
From a cotilla point of view, however, the best of the documentary is not in the review of the 2018/2019 season, which was lazy for the Spanish National Team and disastrous for Real Madrid - the end is not their wedding in summer, nor his honeymoon trip, but the elimination of the team in the Champions League round of 16 against Ajax in Amsterdam in a match conditioned by the expulsion he forced in the first leg, and that prevented him from sustaining the defense, which that day was a strainer -, but in the privileged access but under control to his private life and to the refuge of his home, and that has some reportage in the style Hello, a massage of the ego with 4K digital resolution.
When the cameras access your home in La Moraleja -which you have to recognize a certain De Stijl style-, pictures do not hang on the walls. The pictures are only in the fourth and glancing chapter. His lifestyle is more casual and hedonistic , and seems divided into differentiated environments: the peace of the garden - where you can see hammocks, goals for children and a table for breakfast, in addition to the pool - and the common areas of the interior somewhat ornate, in which the elegant interior is mixed with punctual invasions of furniture or presences kitsch , like a porcelain tiger.
You never see large planes, only details or very chosen corners, and some of the areas of the house are, as the English would say, off limits : you enter the playroom of your children, but never in the conjugal bedroom, and intimacy is limited to family gatherings with children to prepare Halloween or dinners with Pilar Rubio, based on abundant salads, in which they comment on the work day and what is to come - she, the challenges that she must overcome each week in El Anthill; he, the imminent match against Barca that would end up losing 5-1-, very unnaturally. Nothing to do with the home scenes (without friends; in Sergio's documentary there are very few, Lucas Vázquez, his brother and little else) so uprooted and generous with the morbid appetite of the spectator that occurred in the reality of Alaska and Mario Vaquerizo .
One of the problems of the documentary is that it seems a recreation of the normality of a family relationship, perhaps too prepared; It may be a way to save time in the shootings, but that squeals almost spontaneously. And since it has more of a public relations exercise than a representation of reality - it does not even face the weaknesses, as in the documentary that Lady Gaga made with Netflix -, in the end the heart of the footballer appears very little , except when they are with their children , which is when the drool falls and there love breaks the fourth wall, or when it strums the guitar or speaks with admiration of one of its branches as an entrepreneur, the property of the Yeguada SR4 livestock dedicated to raising purebred horses. His purebred Yucatan was crowned as the best horse in the world in 2018 in a competition in Seville.
The last chapter is entitled Legacy , and that is where the whole effort of the documentary leads: to value Ramos's sports career - there is no debate -, to influence his improvement as a man with soul and mind, and present the idea that the path of perfection does not end after the withdrawal, but continues in the following years as an educator of his children and as a bold entrepreneur .
Surely, you have present and internalized the example of David Beckham, and you will have understood that there is an equally successful and glamorous life beyond football, as an investor or model, although it is not so clear, because although there are constant presences in the documentary of his circle of trust -Lucas Vázquez in the dressing room, his tattoo artist and his physiotherapist, David Escrivá-, there is also a clamorous absence: why doesn't your tailor appear? Why do we never see him buying clothes? Those clothes! What we most wanted to see is what they take away from us.
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