The story is clear - a genius always has some childhood shadows, and future problems growing up can also be blamed on this. Geniuses don't get buried, especially in this part of America, and then they fall and get back up again. When dealing with the help of June Carter's family to him, the movie seems to use a more civilian and warm way, a nagging and caring couple, old-fashioned with guns, using momentum to scare away drug dealers. Cash's ex-wife, on the other hand, was portrayed as an indifferent, worldly person who deserted him when he was at his lowest.
The vocals are performed by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon themselves. Naturally, it is no better than the real person. Especially the Reese Witherspoon part. Watching June Carter's singing on youtube, there is more country, more room for magnetism and change.
Coincidentally, on the discount bookshelf at the entrance of Borders in the afternoon, I saw a book written by Johnny Cash's ex-wife, Vivian Cash, called "I Walked the Line-My Life With Johnny". Most of the book is a letter from Johnny to her, in which he shares everything about his life. You look at these letters, and it's much more powerful than a declaration that another person loves me very much. The book also wrote the story of June Carter, a different story. For example, Johnny wrote June's name on the songs he wrote, saying that June needs royalties to live. He added that after the divorce, Johnny stopped talking to her and their four daughters because June wouldn't let him touch them alone.
She says she just lives a privacy-conscious lifestyle, which is different from the Nashville mind-set (Nashville was where Cash later lived).
In the film, Johnny is driven by his wife to sell for a living and can only play guitar in the yard in solitude. Vivian's book describes her sitting on the bed with her hair full of curls and Johnny playing his newly written song to him. Although not as harmonious as Johnny and June on stage, it is still happy.
Maybe no one lied. Decades have passed, and memory always speaks in its own way. In the preamble, Vivian says that one of their daughters said, Mom, you never recovered from your divorce with Dad, and you need to sort it out so you can come out of it. If both the book and the movie serve such mental health care, what better truth can we expect?
Take a look at the write publication date, 2007. By then, both Johnny Cash and June Carter had died.
And Vivian died in 2005, and the movie was released in 2005, so she didn't have the chance to see it.
So, everything is perfect, Walk the Line.
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