Brad Pitt sits at a counter, eating a piece of pie and contemplating life. He strikes up a meandering conversation with his waitress—the kind you’d have at your favorite 24/7 diner. Except he’s not really Brad Pitt. He’s Sonny Hayes, a retired Formula One driver in F1: The Movie. In this scene, Hayes is drawn back into the world he thought he’d left behind, and it’s this seemingly ordinary exchange that sets the movie in motion. For a film about high-speed racing, it makes a quiet but pointed statement: sometimes the most important moments in a blockbuster don’t happen on the track, but over eggs and hash browns.
