A gesture of artistic radicalism or Springsteen's identity crisis?

The project dossier was amazing. What PowerPointHey kid. A film about a rock superstar now that they biopics The great myths of popular music (Queen, Elvis, Dylan…) are going like thunder, with one of the most fashionable actors (Jeremy Allen White, who has working-class arms like Bruce's) and Springsteen himself giving the project the green light. A film born to be discussed. baby. It so happens that the moment it portrays is perhaps not the most epic of the singer's career: when he decided in 1982, amidst the great success of The river and the popularity mascletà of Born in the USAto make a solo, acoustic, dark album with very murky and literary lyrics: Nebraska

Within the classic hero's journey, it's a moment of doubt and an obstacle on the launching pad to worldwide fame that's dramatically very interesting. With an episode of such potential iconicity, Springsteen: Deliver me from nowhere He strives to define himself without succeeding: sometimes it seems he defends it as an artistic identity gesture in the face of external pressures (like Dylan's electrification in A complete unknown), but ends up interpreting it as a self-sabotaging impasse, a personal crisis, and panic about the successful destiny that awaited him. The film is also visually indecisive: between images of the Springsteen imaginary (highways, Asbury Park…) and moments of unyielding perfectionism in the recording studio (the best part of the whole film), dozens of snapshots of rock clichés are inserted and flashbacks sentimental elements that pave the way for the commonplace biopics Orthodox musicians.