My Movie Critics

19 August 2006

Walk The Line (2005)

Click to enlarge the picture.Starring:
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash

What can I say... I have just viewed this movie for the 3rd time! Twice in cinema and now on the brand new release on DVD. The true story of Johnny Cash played perfectly by Joaquin Phoenix, who does his own singing in the film.

The story starts off with the dirt poor family and an angry father and loving mother that shaped the young life of Johnny, until a tragic accident struck the family. An accident that would haunt Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) for many years to come. And all for one lousy dollar! The angry father turned even more angry towards his family in order to punish them and himself.

Time marched on and a grown Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) leaves for the forces and his national service in Germany. It was here his love of music came into it’s own. And started writing his own songs.

On returning to State side he marries his sweetheart and they soon have a family, while he is trying his hand at door to door salesman, his heart really does live elsewhere.
He soon happens along and finds the Sun Record studio where none other than Elvis (Tyler Hilton) is recording. Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) soon gets his band together and fronts up to Sam Phillips (Dallas Roberts) for an audition. Sam is unimpressed with the gospel songs that John sings at that audition, and tell him in no uncertain terms that he is not in the market for anymore gospel singers.

Phillips (Dallas Roberts) asks Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) if you were laying in the gutter dying and you just had one chance to sign a song that would define him, what would that one song be? This is where Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) finds his sound. They cut a record and soon the band starts to tour, and the path of destruction soon follows.

June Carter is brilliantly played by Reese Witherspoon, who also does her own singing in the film.
A truly epic story of a great man and his music, his love for a woman that saved him from himself and a legacy of music that the world enjoys to this day. Music lovers will enjoy this, even if you are not a fan of the man at the start of the film you will be by the end.

by Narf

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