Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

Okay, so I'm not Johnny Cash. I was just using that as I title. You know, for effect. Just forget it.

I saw Walk the Line again last night. I don't normally see movies in the theater twice, since it's a waste of money and all. But, Walk the Line is a fabulous movie. Some hard-core Cash fans complain that it simplifies Cash's robust complexity to simply a man who couldn't live without his June. I say to those people "Lighten up!". Do you want to watch a movie or do you want to watch a documentary? I think that the writer/director made a great move in selecting one aspect of Cash's life and humanity to focus on. If he hadn't, the movie would have been too sprawling, too directionless. The love story between Johnny Cash and June Carter, as portrayed by this movie, is beautiful and raw and real and powerful. And I've gotta hand it to Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. They were outstanding. Go see the movie. And if you can't get in to that one, go see Brokeback Mountain. That's worth a look, too. But it doesn't have nearly the happy ending.