![]() But it helps that I’m a lifelong Bruce Sprinsteeen fan. Part of that connection is simply the power of cinema, connecting an audience and story across time and space in order to deepen our connection to the world. ![]() That music, of course, was recorded much closer to where I was sitting than the film’s setting of Luton, England. But then I was watching this movie in my lifelong home of Philadelphia, intensely relating to a 1987 Pakistani-English teenager and his connection to Bruce Springsteen’s albums. Likely the most famous non-planetary body in our solar system, Halley’s Comet returns into earthly view every 75 years or so, and the discussion of the comet’s history already had me thinking about the cyclical nature of history. The day I saw Blinded by the Light, I also happened to listen to an episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast about Halley’s Comet (and Cholera, but that’s not totally relevant).
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