Walk The Line
After 40 times of Cash asking June to marry him she said yes
Generally I don't go out my way to watch films that are centered on a love story. They all have the same formula: Boy meets girl. Girl and boy fall in love. Some disaster happens and they are separated only to find happiness in the end. This is the plot for any musical or Hugh Grant movie. I don't watch them but the masses seem to love the same old shit served up like an identical McDonalds meal. The same ingredients the same factory formula; insulting to anyone's intelligence.
Walk The Line doesn't follow the formula as it is taken from Johnny Cash's autobiographies. Not knowing too much about the man, apart from the myth, I was a new comer to his early life.
The film starts with Johnny's most famous concert and record at Folsom State Prison. Johnny is pricking his finger on a band saw blade in the prison work room reflecting on a memory that pains him while his band are warming the crowd of inmates.
The film then flashes back to Johnny's early childhood, his harsh upbringing and ugly father played brilliantly by Robert Patrick. Johnny's older brother is killed in an accident with a band saw and Johnny's father blames Johnny for not being there.
Johnny holds this tragedy and guilt for the remainder of the film perpetuated by his father. He deals with it through pills and alcohol. He marries a girl who he hopes will bring him happiness, but always holds a flame for a singer, songwriter, actress and comedian June Carter played radiantly and earnestly by Reese Witherspoon.
It was great seeing Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Roy Orbison being portrayed.
Walk The Line has won awards blah blah but so has 10,000 other pieces of shit. This film, the actors and crew deserved the awards unlike The Hours.
Joaquin Phoenix should have beaten Russell Crowe for the Oscar in Gladiator. IMO he was the film. He acted our Russell out the arena. In Walk The Line his talent shines further and his vocals are spot on as are Reese's. They blew me away.
This film has probably been reviewed a billion times but who gives a fuck, I loved it.
*Look our for Reese and Joaquin's version of It Ain't Me Babe by some unknown called Dylan.
10/10
I completely agree mate. This film was a cracker. My first introduction to Johnny Cash was during the 1980s via these TimeLife style commercials. They ran relentlessly. We used to giggle like little girls about the Ring of Fire.
Then, I found myself driving through Ballina in a rental car. I had no music so I swung through a K-Mart and bought a $5 compilation of Cash. It changed me. I cranked it as far as it would go, singing along to Foggybottom Line and Folsom Prison. I was hooked. I bought Cash by Johnny Cash.
So I was a bit worried when I went to see the movie how the whole movie would pan out. I thought it was wonderful, it didn't candify the story.
But, I have to say mang, you can enjoy McDonalds romantic comedies without having your intelligence insulted. They're a guilty pleasure, mate! Guess that what's happens with you're the youngest of three sisters.
I'd always assumed you were male.
Does Shizuka know?
ha ha ha ha. Come to think of it, Baron did look very effeminate in those brown undies.
Always quick on the uptake mang.
I do wear girl's jeans though. I go clothes shopping so rarely, and my own garments are so ragged, that sometimes I borrow my missus' jeans and wear those. They fit okay, nobody seems to notice.
I'll keep drinking my whiskey, you keep pumping those irons, Hans old buddy!
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