The ACLU takes US birthright citizenship to The Boss
Taking Bruce Springsteen’s politically loaded Born In The U.S.A. and reframing it around an upcoming US Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship, Anderson Wright’s film The Beat centres on real people whose lives may be affected by the outcome.
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When Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A. was released in 1985, it was swiftly misinterpreted as a chest-thumping patriotic rallying cry, rather than recognised for the nuanced protest poetry beating at its heart.
Now, more than 40 years later, the track has been smartly appropriated by the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] to (quite literally) bang home the message of birthright citizenship, and what stands to be lost if that right is undone.
Titled The Beat, the film, from Stink director Anderson Wright, takes Max Weinberg's driving drumbeat and uses it to anchor images of everyday moments across the country, from classrooms to job sites to family gatherings, forming a powerful portrait of a nation shaped by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
