music to calm the noise
And Springsteen: “Deliver Me from Nowhere”, Bruce Springsteen is not the myth, but the man who sits in front of the void and listens to it. The film portrays the creation process of “Nebraska”, the musician’s most austere and painful album, recorded alone at home with a four-track recorder, and which marked a before and after in his career. Behind that echo, that broken voice and those naked guitars, there was a question that had nothing to do with success: How do you survive interior noise?
“The place you come from no longer exists. It only exists here and now”
The film gives a name to that noise that Springsteen has carried since childhood: living with a parent with paranoid schizophrenia, alcohol, violencethe guilt. Jeremy Allen White plays an artist who, to understand his sound, must understand his pain. Through black and white flashbacks, the film traces the invisible line that unites childhood trauma with the obsessive search for a pure, almost ghostly sound, as if only music could make speak what he does not dare to say.
Depression in silence
There is a key moment: “I don’t know if I can keep running away from this“The ‘Boss’ stops fleeing. Pain can no longer be another song, nor an engine of rage; it must be heard. Depression appears in silences, in small gestures, in that “noise” that drowns him when he returns to New Jersey at the end of a tour. But also in care: the presence of the manager, played by Jeremy Strong, who reminds him that no one can make this journey alone. “The place you come from no longer exists,” he tells her. “It only exists here and now”.
Jeremy Allen White, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau at the film’s premiere. / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP
Living with one’s own shadow
The merit of “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” is to avoid clichés. It’s not another biopic about a rock star who sinks into drugs or fame. What is here is much more intimate: lA man’s struggle to live with his own shadow. The first ending, when Springsteen enters a therapist’s office for the first time and allows himself to cry, would have been enough: it is honest, painful and open.
male pain
But, after a fade to black, the film advances ten more months and shows a reunion with the father who seeks to close the circle. It is a gesture of peace, yes, but also of doubt: we do not know if this forgiveness is real or just a possible fantasy. And perhaps that is where its strength lies: in showing that Male pain is not always resolved, but it can be shared. That, even when the noise subsides, the wound continues to resonate.
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