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Blinded by the light movie
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Blinded by the light movie “Blinded by the Light,” is a little movie that has beauty in its core. Gurinder Chadha ’s coming-of-age drama transmutes the raw feeling of Bruce Springsteen ’s music into another kind of feeling, no less raw but full of giddy excitement and joy. The movie is set in 1987, a period of austerity in Margaret Thatcher ’s Britain; the setting is Luton, a manufacturing town stricken by recession. Javed (Viveik Kalra), a British of Pakistani descent, wants to be a poet but, lonely and depressed, he’s off to an unpromising start writing<b> songs </font></b>about nuclear war. Chadha’s exuberant “Bend It Like Beckham” almost two decades ago was proof “that movies with feel-good formulas don’t have to be deadening or demeaning.” The here which covers similar cultural territory. The heroine of the earlier film is a British girl of Indian descent who wants to be a soccer star. Both must contend with rigidly conservative immigrant parents and prejudice against Asians—dangerous prejudice, in Javed’s case, since soaring unemployment has spawned violent nativist gangs. But the big difference here, courtesy of The Boss, is the power of his passionate<b> songs </font></b>to lift the melancholy high-school student’s spirits, stiffen his spine and fire his imagination. Javed discovers Springsteen by a chance encounter with a classmate, Roops ( Aaron Phagura ), who turns him on to some of the<b> songs </font></b>and lends him cassettes of the essential albums. Javed has a quasi-religious revelation. Springsteen in 1987 may be ancient history for some; Javed hears a god transmitting instructions for living a good and generous life. The film transcends mere reality to show the power of music to remake Javed through ecstasy. The screenplay, written by Sarfraz Manzoor, Ms. Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges, was loosely based on a memoir by Manzoor who idolized Bruce Springsteen. In real life The Boss responded to the book by contacting its writer, and later gave his blessings and music permissions to Ms. Chadha’s production. This movie is an endearing portrait of the making of an artist. This little movie is a big feel good winner. A must see in my opinion. |
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A very uplifting movie. The boss is still the boss.
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