Over the course of "Tracks, " you can hear Springsteen wrestling with his tendency towards overt emotionalism.

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The emotionalism of the campaign is clear even in quieter settings.

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Politics creeps in via lunchtime debates, and easygoing relations among ethnically diverse colleagues are balanced by depictions of immigrant criminals, but, above all, the filmmakers reveal deeper and more enduring conflicts: the struggle of technocrats to instill rational policies in a society that values and fosters intense and uninhibited emotionalism above all.

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