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Chadha doesn’t gloss over the darkness at the edge of town in the form of skinhead bullying and the anti-immigrant nationalism that raged then as it does now with the rise of hate-mongering. It’s brutal intolerance and the need to transcend it that made Javed and Bruce kindred spirits.
And so we watch Javed, scribbling notes and attempts at poetry in his journal, speak Springsteen like his personal gospel, making him feel born to run against the strict rules of his wage-slave father Malik , devastated after being laid off by the local GM plant where he’s worked for 16 years. Malik’s son, refusing to go gentle into that bleak night, lives by the resistance of “Thunder Road”— “It’s a town full of losers/I’m pulling out of here to win.
By necessity, Javed develops his own support system. At school, he discovers a teacher, Ms. Clay , who inspires without condescending to him. In Eliza , he finds a girl to set his pulse racing and share his dreams. In Roops , he finds a friend who knows just what Javed is missing. It’s Roops who gives Javed that cassette ofand lets the music work its magic.
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