Walk the line - great movie, but the song I heard in my head at the end..

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2006)

Walk the Line could have ended very dramatically at the Folsom Prison live recording scene, but was ended later a little later in life, when his FAMILY life came together. There was June and Johnny and both their parents, with little Roseanne trying to get grandpa Ray Cash to use a tin can and string phone & talk.
Symbolically it said Johnny's dad couldn't talk. We knew already that Johnny's childhood memories were his demons.
Johnny told his dad to pull the line taunt, but Ray tried to get Johnny to do the talking, thinking he, himself, just couldn't find the words to say.
Johnny encouraged his father that he could do it: "Tell them about the time of the flood, when you saved us with a boat made from a door."
There it was, Johnny encouraging the father who would never, had never, encouraged him. The implication of the now happy family life, of the beginning of positive relationship with dad, of Johnny clutching onto good memories of the past.
Yes, there it was, during the credits, when, instead of Johnny and June doing the hot "Jackson," Johnny's voice could have poured out deeply, "How high's the water, Papa?" That was what I was hearing, that song, "5 feet high and rising" so I guess they made it. dj of raleigh ------------------- "..we can made it to the road in a homemade boat, "..that's the only thing we got left that'll float