{"tag":"nazism","articles":{"blog\/life\/blinded-by-the-light":{"key":"blog\/life\/blinded-by-the-light","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2019-08-13T23:45:46+02:00","publishedAt":"2019-08-13T23:40:00+02:00","group":"movie-review","category":"blog","subcategory":"life","slug":"blinded-by-the-light"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"blinded-by-the-light","title":"Blinded by the Light \u2013 so fucking relatable!","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EI just had a chance to watch a prerelease showing of \u201cBlinded by the Light\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI started crying during one of the first scenes and I couldn\u2019t stop till the end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EI just had a chance to watch a prerelease showing of \u201cBlinded by the Light\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI started crying during one of the first scenes and I couldn\u2019t stop till the end.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI don\u2019t think I ever saw a cinema audience reacting so affectionately to a movie. There was a moment when I thought \u201cdamn, good job, Javed, I so wanna start clapping for you!\u201d. Stupid, right? He\u2019s not gonna hear me. He\u2019s an actor playing some guy and they both are nowhere near, why would anyone sane applaud some pixels on the screen?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd literally one second later half of the movie theater started applauding Javed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe were laughing with him, we were sad with him, we were angry with him, we dreamed with him, we enjoyed music with him...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven the strange musical-ish scene turned out to be not so fake after all. Have you ever seen a musical where people don\u2019t know the choreography or lyrics? Yeah, it\u2019s called life.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJaved was told by his father that he, as a Pakistani, has to keep his head low to avoid racism. I was told just today, for a thousandth time, that as a gay man I have to hold my head low to avoid homophobia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJaved had parents who wouldn\u2019t let him be any other version of himself than what they had imagined for him \u2013 no matter how unhappy it would make him, no matter that they could lose him about it. And myself, well...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJaved went through his struggles. I went through different ones. And anyone who wasn\u2019t privileged enough went through theirs. But we all saw the same hatred and the same bigotry on the faces of people who wanted to hurt us. We all heard the same arrogance and lack of understanding in the voices of people who thought they knew better what\u2019s best for us.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt felt like everybody could relate to some part of his story. And that everybody could find hope there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI saw plenty of movies this year, but I don\u2019t think any of them was anywhere near as good as this one. You should definitely see it once it\u2019s released. I know I will.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022text-center my-4\u0022\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022640\u0022 height=\u0022360\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1YFA_J5JBU\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["awesome","fascism","first kiss","hatred","love","movie","music","muslim","nationalism","nazism","pakistani","racism","review"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI just had a chance to watch a prerelease showing of \u201cBlinded by the Light\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI started crying during one of the first scenes and I couldn\u2019t stop till the end.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI just had a chance to watch a prerelease showing of \u201cBlinded by the Light\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI started crying during one of the first scenes and I couldn\u2019t stop till the end.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI don\u2019t think I ever saw a cinema audience reacting so affectionately to a movie. There was a moment when I thought \u201cdamn, good job, Javed, I so wanna start clapping for you!\u201d. Stupid, right? He\u2019s not gonna hear me. He\u2019s an actor playing some guy and they both are nowhere near, why would anyone sane applaud some pixels on the screen?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd literally one second later half of the movie theater started applauding Javed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe were laughing with him, we were sad with him, we were angry with him, we dreamed with him, we enjoyed music with him...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven the strange musical-ish scene turned out to be not so fake after all. Have you ever seen a musical where people don\u2019t know the choreography or lyrics? Yeah, it\u2019s called life.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJaved was told by his father that he, as a Pakistani, has to keep his head low to avoid racism. I was told just today, for a thousandth time, that as a gay man I have to hold my head low to avoid homophobia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJaved had parents who wouldn\u2019t let him be any other version of himself than what they had imagined for him \u2013 no matter how unhappy it would make him, no matter that they could lose him about it. And myself, well...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJaved went through his struggles. I went through different ones. And anyone who wasn\u2019t privileged enough went through theirs. But we all saw the same hatred and the same bigotry on the faces of people who wanted to hurt us. We all heard the same arrogance and lack of understanding in the voices of people who thought they knew better what\u2019s best for us.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt felt like everybody could relate to some part of his story. And that everybody could find hope there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI saw plenty of movies this year, but I don\u2019t think any of them was anywhere near as good as this one. You should definitely see it once it\u2019s released. I know I will.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022text-center my-4\u0022\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022640\u0022 height=\u0022360\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1YFA_J5JBU\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","words":374,"readTime":2,"lang":"en"}}}}}