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"Purple Rain" by Jon Lewis |
 | | PURPLE RAIN begins with a long, visually dazzling, performance-format music video, "Let's Go Crazy." The song is one of Prince's most familiar numbers, and it immediately signals a connection between the character, the Kid, and Prince, the star who plays the Kid. |
 | | PURPLE RAIN, for all its violence and discord, also suggests the viability of the U.S. nuclear family. |
 | | PURPLE RAIN offers that connection as inevitable, which may be quite perceptive, while FLASHDAUCE myopically argues that Mawby's has a different atmosphere than the sleezy Zanzibar night club or other working-class, all-male urban haunts. |
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