Sunday, March 05, 2006
Walk the Line
I saw the movie at Noni's Friday night. We all enjoyed it. It's one of those morally ambiguous movies of redemption. I didn't care for the way they portrayed Cash's first wife so one dimensionally. She obviously had some winning qualities or he wouldn't have married her and reproduced with her several times. But you'd never know it from the movie. Reese Witherspoon did a fine job as June Carter. Although everyone in the room commented that she outsang the real June by a country mile. It was funny because after those comments you hear June in movie explaining to John that she does comedy because she doesn't have much of a voice. She knew it too. Joaquin Phoenix was good as Johnny, a man in serious need of redemption. Other than having a gift for music, he didn't seem to have all that much to offer the world. It would have been nice at the end of the movie if they could have conveyed somehow that Johnny and June were devoted to each other for 35 years of marriage after that.

The song "Ring of Fire" has been burning in my head for two days now. I finally went to iTunes and bought it. Noni and Popi sent me home with a copy of their Johnny Cash album for music appreciation purposes.
Written at 8:16 PM by Highlandgal.
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