Early Review: Charlize Theron stuns in "Young Adult," a beautifully bleak portrait of arrested adolescense
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Film Rating: A I’m sure you’ve all heard the Bruce Springsteen song “Glory Days,” one of the hit singles off Born in the USA. Its catchy tune, sing-along chorus, and loose, freewheeling atmosphere understandably made it a huge success, one still heard frequently on the radio. Like many Springsteen songs, however, the song’s upbeat tone masks the darker thematic imagery of the lyrics. “Glory Days” is all about people who have failed at life in one way or another. A man whose dreams have long since passed him by, a woman whose relationship ended and left her raising children on her own, and in a verse deleted from the released song, a father who spent a lifetime at a worthless job that ultimately stabbed him in the back. All the characters have two ways of coping with the dissatisfaction of their lives: drinking and thinking back to their “Glory Days,” a time in High School when they had things to be proud of and friends who admired them.
Early Review: Charlize Theron stuns in "Young Adult," a beautifully bleak portrait of arrested adolescense
Early Review: Charlize Theron stuns in "Young…
Early Review: Charlize Theron stuns in "Young Adult," a beautifully bleak portrait of arrested adolescense
Film Rating: A I’m sure you’ve all heard the Bruce Springsteen song “Glory Days,” one of the hit singles off Born in the USA. Its catchy tune, sing-along chorus, and loose, freewheeling atmosphere understandably made it a huge success, one still heard frequently on the radio. Like many Springsteen songs, however, the song’s upbeat tone masks the darker thematic imagery of the lyrics. “Glory Days” is all about people who have failed at life in one way or another. A man whose dreams have long since passed him by, a woman whose relationship ended and left her raising children on her own, and in a verse deleted from the released song, a father who spent a lifetime at a worthless job that ultimately stabbed him in the back. All the characters have two ways of coping with the dissatisfaction of their lives: drinking and thinking back to their “Glory Days,” a time in High School when they had things to be proud of and friends who admired them.