high school . year and decade later and some look back on it with fondness and others with embarrassment . but few find it easy to forget . it one of the most critical phase of our life and when change come fast and furious whether be ready or not . no long child and not yet adult and irresistible force buffet u and push and pull u in every direction . fame do it best to capture this turbulent and chaotic period for it cast of young character . for the most part and it succeed . it meander and but do feel like a slice of life . this movie hold a special place in the heart of the class of 80. we have just bid farewell to a decade and and soon to the end of three or four stimulating and sometimes difficult school year . we be head out into the cold and cruel world and leave home for college then part unknown . a we approach our watershed event and this newly release movie be like a two hour yearbook for u . we couldn not escape the titular song on the radio . that be u up there on the screen . those be our friend and rival and classmate a we have face our own dream and frustration and success and failure . it especially poignant for those who attend any of new york city other elite and top tier high school and especially stuyvesant and bronx h of science or brooklyn tech . like the kid here and we be consider the best of the best . we have no audition and but instead rigorous entrance exam . perhaps even more than the performing art kid and we be expect to change the world and although not necessarily become famous . like them and not all of u make it . but the pressure cooker environment foster extraordinary camaraderie and esprit de corp and not unlike the toe tap hot lunch jam in the cafeteria . on our own graduation day and our spirit soar almost like the jubilant crescendo in the rouse finale . the film leave u fittingly on a single and triumphant note at the end of i sing the body electric and point to the blindingly bright and boundless future and all the promise it hold . fame couldn not have be set anywhere else . this story never would have work in a small or suburban school . los angeles have a strong identification with movie and television and but nyc be a mecca for all of the art . home not only to what be then call pa and but also world renowned juilliard and nyc be a cultural center unmatched by any other city in the world . it also a time capsule of the rest of the city of the time and show the seediness and grit and dirt that be endemic of a new york still struggle back from the fiscal crisis that have nearly bankrupt it . but most of all and it show the vitality and since mute by the inroad of giuliani and disney and tourism . what i wouldn not give to be young again . but with fame and at least i can remember what it be like .