Blinded By The Light- film review
The film, Blinded By The Light, is a musical with elements of comedy and drama based in 1987. It is directed by Gurinder Chadha with it releasing in 2019 moreover with the main them of the music within the film being songs by the American rockstar Bruce Springsteen. The story centres around a second generation Pakistani-Muslim teenager called Javed in which he learns to express himself fully utilising Bruce's songs despite residing within an Asian household which condemns this genre of music. Since young Javed has constituted his passion for writing and poetry in which it began with his childhood friend Matt gifting him a diary. Later on he begins his A levels in which he chose English as his subject. He does this in secret due to it opposing his fathers wishes of him studying economics. Moreover he has to work a job on top of studying which he has to give all the money he has earned to his father, further enforcing Javed's lack of opportunity and expression. Meeting her in h