Talents Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, are absolutely amazing as June and Johnny
Story goes…Johnny Cash (Phoenix) is about to play his now-famous Folsom Prison live concert. It's 1968. He's sweating and fondling the dangerous edge of a table saw in his "dressing room," as the crowd of inmates, the "audience" awaiting, is erupting.
Wearing his now signature black on black with black attire, Johnny stops for a moment to drink in his surroundings and we are all whisked back to the events that brought this man into the forefront of American musical history.
John, J.R. Cash was born in poverty and had it tough. Though this seems to be some sort of perquisite for legendary talents-to-be, Cash's story isn't all post crop farm fanfare glitter and fine buffets. During his early years, Cash some how starts to write deep poetry - for himself. Cash somehow picks up a guitar and teaches himself. And, Cash somehow manages to find himself at Sun Records (the pinnacle of the birth of American Rock and Roll really).
At his big audition, the Hymn song he and his band have prepared doesn't impress the producer at all. But, Cash somehow remembers a poem, err, song he strummed about back in the service…
Enter that voice; that deep different desiring near desperate perhaps from a far away once-descended, but made-it-out, storytelling voice.
Cash is immediately signed, cuts a record, and heads out on a whirlwind tour of musical historical proportions. This little "jig-o-talents" that was to cross a few state lines, included a list of "about-to-bes" that would ultimately produce the Holy Grail of Rock Show Posters for some squiling present-day person found featured on the Antique Road Show. It had a group of names unequalled in R&R Fables; Cash of course, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins…and, along for the ride is the beautiful and famous-since-diapers, June Carter (Reese Witherspoon)…
June's a good girl and Cash is a bad boy - it's the grand ol' story, an opera in the making - 'nough said? But, this is no regular love story.
One of my fav films of the last 10 years 5/5
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