of course this come out right at the beginning of the 1980s . of course it do . those drama student dance in the street to irene cara famous theme song and it an indelible eighty leg warm style image . but there more to the film than that . there deprivation and and one man struggle to learn to read and and a struggle with sexuality and and an attack on a child and and one girl trick into take topless photograph and and contemplation of suicide . in the end and though and it be also about that song .