Basically about race and inter-generational conflict in 1980s Britain. Comes over more like East is East than My Beautiful Launderette or My Son the Fanatic: feels fairly familiar in many respects, and quite frothy. Not likely to be as big a hit as something like Bend if like Beckham as the laughs are not many and mainly rely on having been there at the time. But not overwhelmingly grim either given it deals with unemployment, Thatcherism and the rise of the National Front. Whether you really enjoy it depends on whether you can stomach Bruce Springsteen's music (I can't) and the fantasy dance sequences (cringe). So not for everyone but at its heart this is a film with good politics dealing with themes that remain relevant. Both me and my 14 year old son agreed it was ok, but not a film we would necessarily recommend to everyone.
Review of Blinded by the Light
