Review of Walk the Line

Walk the Line (2005)
7/10
Missing Half the Story
16 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Joaquin Phoenix does some fine acting and singing. But the story has only half of Cash's life, his troubled relationship with his father and his love for June Carter.

Where is Cash the civil rights protester? The one who put out a whole album on Native rights.

Where is Cash the antiwar protester? What Is Truth, Singing Vietnam Talking Blues, and of course Man In Black.

Where is Cash The Outlaw? The legend with fellow legends Haggard, Nelson, and Kristofferson.

And Cash becoming a legend all over again to Gen X. Admired and covered by the likes of Soundgarden, Social Distortion, and many others.

Cash himself wouldn't have care for a film making him so blandly apolitica. He was opinionated to say the least.
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