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Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

I am Sam Adams, a culture editor here at Slate,

and today we are spoiling the movie Blinded by the Light. Blinded by the Light is the story of Javid, the British-born son of Pakistani immigrants who becomes obsessed with the music of Bruce Springsteen. It's the 1980s, the height of Thatcherism, the resurgence of the racist National Front, and the golden age of synth pop, all of which makes

Springsteen deeply unfashionable.

But Javad, an aspiring writer who bristles at the future laid out for him by his immigrant father, finds that Springsteen's stories of dead-end life and young male rebellions speak to him. And that sets him at odd with both his family and his peers. Based on a true story, the movie is co-written and directed by Bend It Like Beckham's Gorinda Chata, and it's in theaters now. Joining me to spoil Blinded by the Light are Ingu Kang, a staff writer at Slate, and Natish Pawah, a copy editor at Slate. Ingu, hello. Hello, hello. Hello, hello. All right, so let us start in traditional fashion by saying what we thought and would we

recommend this movie. Natish, do you want to go first? Yeah, sure. So I too was kind of going into this,

expecting more of the classic Grindicada Fair, something more lines of Venet Lake Beckham or like a

bride and prejudice. I was definitely surprised a little bit by how it turned out. I thought

it was very moving in a lot of parts. It was a very smart look at the immigrating experience at a

specific moment in time, a specific point. But I did think at other times, the musical elements

also turned a little corny. When you say you were expecting the traditional Gurundar Chata affair, can you talk a little bit more about that?

Yeah, it's that east-west dynamic, which I think she's pretty much always done.

I'm a person living in a more Western culture.

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