Movies— Blinded by the Light
‘Blinded by the Light’ Review: Testing the Limits of Springsteen
One of the movie’s screenwriters, Sarfraz Manzoor, is the author of the true story on which the movie is based, the 2007 memoir “Greetings From Bury Park.” But here, liberties beyond the normal ones were taken with the factual narrative. The movie relentlessly barrels to a reconciliation that the actual circumstances of Manzoor’s life story made impossible.
Finding Salvation in Springsteen From a London Suburb
How a bandanna-clad musician from New Jersey helped a Pakistani kid in suburban England survive high school by speaking directly to his troubles — restlessness, alienation, the burden of parental expectation, inchoate longing, being working class, being poor — was the subject of Manzoor’s 2007 memoir, “Greetings From Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock ’n’ Roll.”
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