Vivian was never a good match anyway

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2019)

Walk the Line is a movie about the early career of Johnny Cash. Early in his career he gets addicted to drugs, in the from of pills in his case, like so many popular singers have. The only reason he stops, and that isn't for very long, is because June Carter flushes them all down the toilet after his first overdose on stage. Then his father yells at him for being "a pill poppin' rock star" and he goes right back to them, but June saves him as he goes through withdrawls after getting his tractor stuck in the mud. Through it all June stays by his side. She doesn't always like it but she stays. Vivian just yells at Johnny for one thing or another. She yells at him for singing with his bad before they record their first song. She yells at him for not selling anything when they first get married. She yells at him for being an addict. She yells at him for talking about the tour. She yells at him for coming home. She yells at him for being away. She yells at him for hanging up pictures of his band that also have June in them. She yells at him for everything. No wonder their marriage didn't work out. If I was Johnny Cash, I'd want to be away from her as soon as possible. When Vivian leaves with their children, I felt the wrench that Johnny must have been feeling. He was trying to make her happy. She yelled and blamed him for everything. When they get into the final fight that the children see. He gets up and tries to console the children. Tries being the key word. Vivian is just broken down on the floor crying. She doesn't even try to apologize. Johnny sees that he can't get through to her and he walks out of the kitchen. When he hears the car start he begs Vivian to keep the children out of it and chases the car down the street, but Vivian is beyond hearing.
I knew quite a bit about Johnny Cash mostly because he's one of my mother's favorite artists and she listens to his music all the time. I knew that at some point Johnny Cash married June Carter, because towards the end of his career his wife's name is June not Vivian. I feel bad for him. He tried so hard to make everything work out with Vivian, but there's only so much you can do when you only date someone for a month before you marry them. Johnny's real name was J R Cash, but when he enlisted for the Us Air Force the recruiter wouldn't let him enlist with just initials so, he changed his name to John R Cash. His most famous song wasn't a song he wrote. I was irritated by the way Johnny's father treated him after Jack's death and for the rest of his life. Everything he tried to do was to get his father's approval and he never got it. June stayed with Johnny through his overdose to his rehab in the cabin in the woods. Even though she wasn't his first wife, she treated him better than Vivian ever did. Vivian just wanted him to make money like a normal guy and never wanted him to talk about the tours. June was with him every step of the way. From their first meeting when her dress got stuck on Johnny's guitar strap, to her last moments.