"Instead, it's that, yes, this beloved giant of American song will eventually figure out who he is - but we're going to have to spend a couple of hours plowing through the murk to get there. With "Deliver Me From Nowhere," director-screenwriter Scott Cooper has chosen to elongate a particularly shadowy chapter of Springsteen's creative life - much of it based on a book of the same title by Warren Zanes"
"In "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" - about the making of his fraught 1982 album, "Nebraska" - our hero splurges on a Camaro with an ink-black paint job as dark as his headspace. He's fresh off a boffo tour, struggling to settle into the autumnal quiet of New Jersey, and when the button-down car salesman tells Springsteen that he knows who he is, the Boss responds with a folksy grunt: "Well, that makes one of us.""
Scott Cooper's Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere focuses on Bruce Springsteen's fraught period during the making of 1982's Nebraska. The film privileges interiority and the nonlinear act of songwriting, concentrating on solitary home recordings made on a four-track tape machine and the quiet waterfront house where the album took shape. Concert and studio reenactments appear but occupy less emotional ground than scenes of loneliness and creative stasis. The film deliberately elongates a shadowy chapter of Springsteen's life, creating a slow, moody, occasionally ponderous portrait that asks audiences to plow through murk to reach the artist's self-understanding.
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