'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Is Wildly Misunderstood

“I want it to feel like I’m in the room by myself.” That’s the instruction that Jeremy Allen White’s Bruce Springsteen gives to engineer Mike Batlan (Paul Walter Hauser) early on in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. They’re setting up a makeshift recording studio in the bedroom of a small house the singer has rented, far away from everyone.