12-23-2019, 09:41 AM
A Pakistani boy in Lutton, England transforms his life when he hears Bruce Springsteen for the first time in 1980s Britain.
After the disappointment of the movie 'Yesterday' and it's adoration of Beatles songs, I hoped this would be the transformative movie musical of the year (Still looking at you Rocketman) and it's not. The movie tries to be a lot of things and kind of comes up short on all the threads. It's a love story across cultures between Pakistani and English. It's a story of a boy becoming a young man in the face of disapproval of his father. It's life as a person of color in in Thatcher's Britain. It's the battle between New Wave Music and Bruce Springsteen.
And there are weird break into musical dance numbers that seem awkwardly done in a gritty drama.
It's also depressing to see Jahved struggle to be accepted and chase his dream of being a writer. Everything in his life is pretty bleak. He fights with his father. He gets hazed by the White Nationalists. He can't get work at the school paper. And his father loses his job at the Vauxhall factory.
At the end, the stories seem disparate rather than meshing into one nice whole. There's also Bruce Springsteen popping in with helpful lyrics for every rough situation Jahved faces.
Not Doom recommended or anybody recommended.
After the disappointment of the movie 'Yesterday' and it's adoration of Beatles songs, I hoped this would be the transformative movie musical of the year (Still looking at you Rocketman) and it's not. The movie tries to be a lot of things and kind of comes up short on all the threads. It's a love story across cultures between Pakistani and English. It's a story of a boy becoming a young man in the face of disapproval of his father. It's life as a person of color in in Thatcher's Britain. It's the battle between New Wave Music and Bruce Springsteen.
And there are weird break into musical dance numbers that seem awkwardly done in a gritty drama.
It's also depressing to see Jahved struggle to be accepted and chase his dream of being a writer. Everything in his life is pretty bleak. He fights with his father. He gets hazed by the White Nationalists. He can't get work at the school paper. And his father loses his job at the Vauxhall factory.
At the end, the stories seem disparate rather than meshing into one nice whole. There's also Bruce Springsteen popping in with helpful lyrics for every rough situation Jahved faces.
Not Doom recommended or anybody recommended.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
