This movie needs intelligence to watch

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2006)

This is an intelligent movie, requiring the viewer to watch carefully and evaluate the significance of what is both said and spoken. I suggest you watch the DVD version so you see the deleted scenes and the director's comments. They're helpful and a guide to the art that went into putting the film together. In fact, I doubt that a book can be turned into a movie any other way.
You need to keep this understated technique in mind to appreciate Reese Witherspoon's performance in the film. Her hidden agony as the religious June Carter in love with the married Johnny Cash is, to put it mildly, Heavenly. She's no longer Legally Blonde. I never fully understood the significance of "Burning Ring of Fire" until I saw Reese's interpretation of why it was written. Perhaps the movie should have been named The Passion of June Carter.
I watched it on the recommendation of a friend and I recommend it to anyone, even someone who says they don't like C&W music.