We just returned from “Blinded by the Light,” a new release featuring a Pakistani family in Britain. The father is traditional, but the son wants to be a writer. Conflict ensues. The movie is set in the 1980s, and the son gets much of his inspiration from Bruce Springsteen songs.
This was a period in Britain of “Paki-bashing” and marches by white supremacists. At one point the son tells his father that in America they don’t care where you are from.
It is an excellent movie, even if it got a few things wrong.
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