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As a white, working class boy, I was privileged and honoured to be Best Man at the weddings of two of my other close friends, one from Sri Lanka and the other whose mother was of Asian extraction. In fact, all my early friendships were based on simply being friends and not taking their obviously different ethnicity to my own into account. Being very young and ridiculously unworldly, I didn't twig that David was 'different'. My best friend in the earliest school I can remember attending was called David. I offer a brief unapologetic wander down my own memory lane. Like the best of Pixar, we all know where we are going but it's how we get there (that even may be a paraphrased Springsteen lyric) that's the most important thing.
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But it's not the predictability that makes Chada's movie so intoxicating. The lyrics and music of 'the Boss' propel our hero forward tapping into and manifesting a confidence, ambition and talent he never knew he had. Upon literally bumping into a fellow student, a Sikh 'Boss' fan, he discovers what all his New Romantic buddies are calling 'dated' music. His Pakistani family suffer racist abuse at a frequency that now seems all too prescient. We have a teen stuck in the mire of family duty and academic study at the time of great upheaval in the UK in the 80s.
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I was never going to pass on any film that was marketed by the words ".inspired by the music and lyrics of Bruce Springsteen." And I'm so glad I caught it, over a week into its run at a small but satisfyingly full cinema. He put Gurinder Chada, Blinded's director, on the cover (kudos), which took me to the article. I was first alerted to its existence (despite its early Sundance success) by the new film magazine, Film Stories launched by Simon Drew (Den of Geek founder). It was sort of inevitable that I would be well disposed to the idea of this film even before seeing a frame of the trailer. He’s been there for me since I was 16 and he’s still there for me today." "I think that, for me, I couldn't have had a better hero than Bruce Springsteen because he’s like your friend. "My English teacher in high school came into our class one morning, sat down, and played this entire album (The River, a double album) for us without saying a word. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT is the story of how one man's universal art can soar over cultural hurdles. If left-leaning, working class hero Bruce Springsteen really was 'The Boss' then the US might stand a chance of redeeming itself.
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