Making a movie about Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska matches Nebraska’s artistic ethos. 

After the success of The River — as Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles — the world expected his follow-up album to be a continuation into mainstream superstardom, along the lines of what became Born in the U.S.A.

Instead, Bruce countered these expectations with the challenge of Nebraska.

Hollywood biopics generally cover sperm to worm, or the most famous stretch of the subject’s biography. For Springsteen, the latter would’ve been the Born in the U.S.A. era.

As such, the decision to focus a Boss biopic on Nebraska counters and challenges these Born in the U.S.A. expectations. 

Note the symmetry. 

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Conversely, retroactively affixing “Springsteen” onto the title Deliver Me from Nowhere betrays Nebraska’s no-headshot-on-album principles. 

As does releasing the video below as if it’s an accurate portrayal of the movie, as opposed to merely the movie that the masses would prefer to see, in the same way the masses preferred to listen to Born in the U.S.A. over Nebraska.