It is 1987, a period where Thatcherism and the white supremacist National Front still reign supreme. Newcomer Viveik Kalra stars as Javed, an English teenager whose parents emigrated from Pakistan. Director Gurinder Chadha and her collaborators mean well-the earnestness on display here is unusual-although their attempts to celebrate Springsteen are not enough to suspend the required disbelief. The trouble is this inner struggle is not cinematic, so we are left with a film that mixes a coming-of-age drama with an awkward, risky jukebox musical. More specifically, it suggests that Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics have the timeless ability to make sense of teenage angst and economic struggle. Blinded by the Light believes in the transformative power of song lyrics.
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