After being told his entire life -- and many, many additional times in the first third of the movie -- that video game sim-racing isn't at all the same as the real deal, the first thing "Gran Turismo" ubergamer Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe) tells himself when he gets behind the wheel of a real racing car, about to compete for a spot on an actual, in real life, racing team, is just the opposite: "It's just a game," he says to himself, like a mantra. Nothing he hasn't seen countless times before, in other words, having put thousands of hours in front of his monitor screen running these tracks as simulations.