Walk The Line

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2018)

Recently I have watched the biographical drama directed by James Mangold that is called "Walk the line" based on two autobiographies of Johny Cash and June Carter. It is a movie that depicts how most of the actors and actresses as well as other professions of arts fight many difficulties to reach the goal and how life is changing when you are becoming famous, how many severe temptations may appear when money and fame come. Moreover, the plot is based on the life of Johny Cash since his childhood, his way to be a famous singer and his affair with June Carter and presents such themes as inequality, cruelty, psychological violence, relations, love, family, drug addiction and friendship.
The drama starts with the childhood of the main character whose role is legendary performed by Joaquin Phoenix as the grown-up one. A nice boy is nurtured in a poor working class family in which the father is a hard drunker who regularly beats his mother and later will accuse his son in the death of the elder one. Although Johny Cash has cold relation with his father, but he is very close spiritually with his brother, Jack. Both brothers help each other, work together, and speak a lot and Jack looks like an ideal child and as a sample for a younger brother. However, he dies being severely injured.
The rest of the life of Johny Cash is difficult, and then he leaves family to serve in the Air Force in Germany and marries Vivian Liberty (Ginnifer Goodvin) who sacrifices the comfortable life of her father's family for Joahny. However, she is not a singer and during difficult times of poverty she insists on finding by her husband a normal job to feed their child and to buy a big house instead of singing the songs with Joahny's band. She doesn't believe her husband's success and doesn't support him.
Johny Cash is a kind person who is trying to earn money by selling some stuff but is not successful in this branch. He spends evenings with his band dreaming of their own recording. Finally, his own songs have a great success. His play is awesome, his gestures, mimes and especially sight on his lover when he is singing. Being reach and famous he becomes drug addicted and loses everything, his wife and children as well as his parents and only June Carter with her family decides to help him to give it up, protecting his house by means of guns.
Nevertheless, Johny is becoming a famous and successful singer; he earns a lot of money but doesn't spend too much time with his family that irritates his wife. Taking a tour he falls in love with one of the nicest actress, June Carter (Reese Witherspoon, who won the Oscar Award as the best actress of this role). This woman is light, humorous and easy to communicate with but has a difficult destiny and also suffers from being famous. She has a few unhappy marriages and brings up two children herself earning money and doing what she has taught during her life, her parents as well as the Johny's father didn't appreciate her talent considering that her sister is much more proficiency than she is. However, she remain kind and helpful.

The drama presents the life and price of fame, how it is changing and how it is important to have support of the family or friends when you really need it. The actors, who play in this movie, know how to do their works. They have managed to depict the atmosphere of those times when rock'n'roll was listened by everybody, to express the time of changing when people just learned what freedom and feminism is when divorce just began to appear but still was considered as a shameful deal.
Finally, I love the ending of the movie. Everything and everyone takes its or their own places that I liked most of all after being on the edge of my seat guessing how the singer will survive as well as his band, and what will be the end of his relations with June.
Overall, the best thing that is about the movie is that it is still relevant nowadays. Even these days the situations of fame, drugs and money occur in our daily life especially of those people who work in the sphere of art that underlines the value of this drama. If you are looking for something that shows you how life may change and makes you rethink some moments of life and analyze your psychological condition, this movie is undoubtedly for you.