The journey Bruce Springsteen had writing his 1982 Nebraska album, which came from a very dark place as he battled his demons after some huge success.
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Deliver Me from Nowhere is a truly emotional journey into the darkness Bruce Springsteen has felt at different stages of his life. Looking back to his childhood and how his father would behave and how he used the writing of Nebraska in 1982 to address those demons.
We get an intimate look into how songs are written and combined with music, how passionate Bruce was about the songs he wrote within this timeframe and the ones which were shelved until the next album. The constant battle with the record label, who just did not understand his process and the style he went with for this album. How he didn’t want it electric and wanted to use those bedroom recordings, with all the rawness of the recording.
It portrays the relationship with his manager Jon Landau to be very good, and that he actually carries about Bruce as a person and not just an artist to make money from. For me that was a particular highlight in the film, showing that it can work well and be supportive. The emotional toll of the story also focuses on the relationship between Bruce and his father Douglas, who had struggled with alcohol and depression leading to abusive behaviour towards his family.
I am a big Springsteen fan and have seen him in concert seven times and therefore had been really looking forward to the film, but with that understanding that it only focuses on that small period of time. I actually didn’t know a huge amount about the Nebraska album so I learnt quite a lot about that as well.
Obviously a big aspect of a biopic like this working is the lead performance and it was great to see Jeremy Allen White transform himself as Bruce, with a lot of support from the man himself in the filming process and also encouraging White to make the songs his own. Jeremy Strong is a scenestealer as usual and has some terrific scenes throughout. Stephen Graham was an excellent choice as his father and even with a small amount of screen time is very impressive.
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I will see this when they send me a screening link for awards consideration, but for some reason, the idea of following him through one very small moment in his life and career doesn’t appeal to me…yet as you point out, the film is really good and insightful.
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I understand what you mean with that, but that small moment was rather defining for Bruce so I can understand why it is then focused on that.
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