"The first is a silent, troubled, closed-off young artist almost too eager to fence himself in. This Springsteen rents a home in the woods of Colts Neck, New Jersey, and effectively barricades himself into a bedroom where he obsessively watches Terrence Malick's Badlands on a loop and feverishly writes the anguished songs that would form his seminal 1982 folk album, Nebraska."
"The other Springsteen, glimpsed less frequently in the film, is an almost shamanic performer, shaking and sweating and bellowing his way through sets even on the relatively small stage of the Stone Pony, the legendary Asbury Park club where he often plays. Cooper makes sure to push both these images of Springsteen to their extremes. He plays up the loneliness on one end and the explosiveness on the other, and what's most compelling"
Scott Cooper's biopic depicts two sides of Bruce Springsteen: a silent, troubled young artist who barricades himself in a Colts Neck bedroom, obsessively watching Terrence Malick's Badlands and feverishly writing the anguished songs that formed Nebraska. The film also shows a shamanic stage performer, shaking, sweating and bellowing through sets at the Stone Pony. The movie pushes both images to extremes and centers on the tension between loneliness and explosiveness. That tension suggests truths about artistic creation and depression. Jeremy Allen White portrays Springsteen with a clipped, tense demeanor and inchoate torment, conveying a man who needs help.
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