So, I finally got around to checking out "Blinded By the Light", the 2019 Sundance Film Festival darling which prompted a bidding war for its distribution rights. It was a pleasant enough movie experience, but once again, what gets people excited at 8,000 feet in January in Utah didn't translate to any sort of box office success when it was unleashed on the masses in late summer 2019. And I'm not really surprised by that, as it's really hard to get any young people to go to the cinema in the streaming era we're currently in if you're not showing a horror or an "event" movie. So curl up at home and check it out anyway.
The story's been written about several times here in the comments, so I'm not going to get into it. It didn't really ring that true, as several sections of the movie just seemed way to "illogical", to put it bluntly. But the creative license taken by the filmmakers in the story (including the extended dance sequence) worked just enough me to get on board with the overall saga of a U.K. high school Springsteen loving immigrant getting persecuted by (and with) his family in suburban London. The feel-good ending would even make the late John Hughes happy.
So check your brain for a spell and just go with it if you care to.
The story's been written about several times here in the comments, so I'm not going to get into it. It didn't really ring that true, as several sections of the movie just seemed way to "illogical", to put it bluntly. But the creative license taken by the filmmakers in the story (including the extended dance sequence) worked just enough me to get on board with the overall saga of a U.K. high school Springsteen loving immigrant getting persecuted by (and with) his family in suburban London. The feel-good ending would even make the late John Hughes happy.
So check your brain for a spell and just go with it if you care to.