Given how pop culture has immortalized Saturday Night Fever as basically a movie where John Travolta dances to a collection of Bee Gees tunes, it's a surprise to watch the actual film for the first time and discover that this is a much darker than expected feature. Over the course of the runtime,
Saturday Night Fever reveals its true colors as a tragic story about a nineteen-year-old trying to break out into his own identity but struggling to do so with his toxic group of friends and a troubled home life. I wasn't fully captivated by this John Badham directorial effort but I do appreciate how
Saturday Night Fever tries to be a more introspective motion picture than its general reputation would indicate.
