This is the territory Deliver Me from Nowhere covers, and if it sounds like lore—well, by this point, Springsteen's story feels more like lore than reality. (The movie's source material is Warren Zanes’ 2023 book of the same name.) One of the picture’s most admirable qualities is that we never really see Bruce falling apart. There’s no major crackup, no rock-bottom reckoning. White simply plays Bruce as a man adrift, a rock’n’roll astronaut cut loose from his space module. He looks washed out, a little zonked, nothing like the guy we see in the movie’s most exhilarating scene, an early one, giving his usual all to a massive concert audience, flanked by his usual compatriots the E Street Band.