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 Walk the Line

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Year:  2005 Rated: PG-13 Runtime: Insert
Starring:  Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Ginnifer Goodwin, Shelby Lynne
Directed by:  James Mangold
Written by:  James Mangold, Gill Dennis
Based on the autobiography by: Johnny Cash and Patrick Carr
Music by:  T-Bone Burnett
Movie Studio:  Fox 2000 Pictures

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Truly one of the best autobiographies I've ever read.  You'll feel like the Man himself is talking to you. - CDM

 

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Ride This Train
by Christian De Matteo

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Growing up in Yonkers, many weekends I would sit on the wood floor in the living room, play with my toys and listen to the albums, the vinyls if you're under 25, that my dad would put on.  Cat Steven's Tea for the Tillerman, Tower of Power, Eric Clapton and very often, Johnny Cash.  My father would play At Folsom Prison, Ride this Train, and make sure to make me pay special attention to songs like Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues and Ring of Fire.  Ring of Fire I remember particularly clearly, the trumpets always resonating through my head, some of the best music I've ever heard.

As the years have passed, my buddy and fellow HugeReviewer, Mike Flanagan, and I have rediscovered Johnny Cash together, making sure that the CDs of At Folsom prison and At San Quentin were with us on every road trip we've ever taken.  We've laughed with Johnny, mourned with Johnny, and most of all sang our deepest baritones with Johnny.  When he died on September 12th, 2003, we both wore black.

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I was ready for the movie, I was thrilled about the casting of Phoenix and Witherspoon, and I must say I'm thrilled with the results.  Having read one of Johnny's autobiographies in preparation, Cash by Johnny Cash - a terrific book that I highly recommend, I knew a lot of the story and couldn't wait to see how an extremely competent director like Mangold would handle it.

Walk the Line does a great job of telling the story of one of the most influential country artists to have ever lived.  Joaquin Phoenix, probably channeling much personal loss and grief regarding the death of his own brother River, makes Cash truly human, deeply flawed and deeply good.  We believe his goodness, as well as his faults and care, despite our personal associations with the real man, very much for Phoenix's Cash. 

Meanwhile, on a path toward continually amazing me, Reese Witherspoon floored me as June Carter, bringing the woman who so captured the heart of Johnny Cash for so many decades, making sure that the audience can't help but fall in love with her as well.  The chemistry between these two actors is nothing short of what it should have been, which was a very high bar to live up to.

Mangold does a great job also of pacing the story into it's almost two and half hours, filling it with almost forty years of a life time.  At times, especially early on, the movie does seem episodic, clicking a bit too fast between experiences in his life.  This is somewhat of a necessary fault, maybe the only way to show the growth and spirit of Mr. Cash and the nature of his relation ship with his first wife.

The film pulls no punches about who made what mistakes, what mortal sins were committed by who, and the fact that no one's perfect.  We see wrong done and love given, we see addiction, so much addiction that it's difficult to watch.  The hardest parts of the movie are when Johnny falls his farthest into his addiction, and Joaquim does an incredible job making it hurt.

Mangold's Walk the Line is a great biopic, one that Cash himself would probably have liked, as much as it would have hurt him to watch the hurt he caused.  Toward the end of his life, Johnny made much out of being as honest about himself as he could, a sort of penance and promise in his writing, hoping others could learn from his mistakes and celebrate in his successes as sort of inspiration.  Mangold's movie accomplishes and tells a great damn story in the meantime.

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Walk the Line: Cool
by Michael Flanagan

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Walk the Line is cool.  Very cool.  The movie is just damn cool.  Johnny Cash is and always will be cool.  Joaquin Phoenix is cool for playing him so well.  Reese Witherspoon gives her best performance I’ve seen, and she’s so cool it hurts.  The music is, as always, excellent, but the actors all do such a great, convincing job with it that it’s just freakin’ cool.

 I’d write a more serious review, but just see the movie.  Johnny Cash fan or not, country fan or not, music fan or not, it’s a great movie.  I’m reading the autobiography Cash now, and the movie is a little bit fairy tale, but it’s, yup, a damn cool one.

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