Walk the line
After reading the review was rather sceptical about the movie: I am not really kin on biographies of celebrities. They are abstract people for me: no personal interaction = no room for excitement to emerge. And Johnny Cash I had really a poor clue about before I went.
Still, I watched “Walk the line”, this movie on Johnny Cash career. It’s a story about establishing yourself and coping with frustration. The other day Anya gave a marvellous definition to frustration: the latter, according to her (or whoever referred to) is a lack of love. Lack of love you are getting, lack of love you are giving, lack of love to yourself – this all give a reason for frustration to rise. That way frustration becomes truly explanatory for many things in life. It is essentially frustrated and helpless ones who are looking for the soul salvation in violence, drugs, drinking and unscrupulous life style. Strongly influenced by a childhood trauma Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is making his way to the big stage. How he copes with whatever his popularity brings and how seemingly fragile-pretty-frivolous June Carter (Reese Witherspoon) shows greatest mental strength and courage to pull him out of the virtuous cycle of frustration.
Never watched any movie with Joaquin Phoenix. This is the man.. not one of those superficially labelled as “hot”. Yes, he appears what they call hot (= “oh, God, what a man!”) in some scenes, but at the same time you see him pitiful, sweating and ugly in this undisguised physical weakness. This does not make him less attractive, though. On the contrary, it is the ability to feel, ability to be vulnerable and ability to suffer that makes humans devilishly attractive.
The movie abounds in scenes of close-ups. Faces we see… I remember how one of my female friends was puzzled with the pictures of famous actresses. After an extensive screening she concludes that it was not the amount of clothes they had on or posture they took, but their facial expressions that made the difference. “Walk the line” is a true play of facial expressions. The range of emotions is not that of Latin dramas though. Slight movement of cheek-bones, still pupil of the eyes, number of wrinkles on the forehead – by those little changes you observe how emotion floats. This takes amazing performance by the actors which they certainly deliver. Magnetic, insane and eating-through look of Johnny Cash, begging or at times claiming look of Vivian Cash (Johnny’s wife), assumingly naïve, but just skilfully hiding all the disaster look of June Carter. Happy or squirming in pain those people are beautiful as they are able to surrender themselves to the feelings – whichever feelings those are.
Still, I watched “Walk the line”, this movie on Johnny Cash career. It’s a story about establishing yourself and coping with frustration. The other day Anya gave a marvellous definition to frustration: the latter, according to her (or whoever referred to) is a lack of love. Lack of love you are getting, lack of love you are giving, lack of love to yourself – this all give a reason for frustration to rise. That way frustration becomes truly explanatory for many things in life. It is essentially frustrated and helpless ones who are looking for the soul salvation in violence, drugs, drinking and unscrupulous life style. Strongly influenced by a childhood trauma Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is making his way to the big stage. How he copes with whatever his popularity brings and how seemingly fragile-pretty-frivolous June Carter (Reese Witherspoon) shows greatest mental strength and courage to pull him out of the virtuous cycle of frustration.
Never watched any movie with Joaquin Phoenix. This is the man.. not one of those superficially labelled as “hot”. Yes, he appears what they call hot (= “oh, God, what a man!”) in some scenes, but at the same time you see him pitiful, sweating and ugly in this undisguised physical weakness. This does not make him less attractive, though. On the contrary, it is the ability to feel, ability to be vulnerable and ability to suffer that makes humans devilishly attractive.
The movie abounds in scenes of close-ups. Faces we see… I remember how one of my female friends was puzzled with the pictures of famous actresses. After an extensive screening she concludes that it was not the amount of clothes they had on or posture they took, but their facial expressions that made the difference. “Walk the line” is a true play of facial expressions. The range of emotions is not that of Latin dramas though. Slight movement of cheek-bones, still pupil of the eyes, number of wrinkles on the forehead – by those little changes you observe how emotion floats. This takes amazing performance by the actors which they certainly deliver. Magnetic, insane and eating-through look of Johnny Cash, begging or at times claiming look of Vivian Cash (Johnny’s wife), assumingly naïve, but just skilfully hiding all the disaster look of June Carter. Happy or squirming in pain those people are beautiful as they are able to surrender themselves to the feelings – whichever feelings those are.
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