Walk The Line

I watch the above DVD over the weekend. What a great show!

The story is about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Johnny was a singer (country/Western) who started out his career during the same era as Elvis and the Beatles while June was his eventual wife, whom he met during his early tours.

The movie started with Johnny and his brother sharing some good times together, but his brother got killed during an accident, where he was working part time in a saw-mill. Obviously, their dad, sort of like blame Johnny for the accident and this haunted Johnny throughout the film.

Johnny started out his singing career when he picked up courage to approach a record producer for audition. Once he started, he never looked back. Before the marriage with June, he married Vivian and had 3 kids (If I remembered).

Well, Johnny had a thing for June because, he heard June over the radio since young and meeting her was like a dream come true. During tours, he fell in love with her, although June was married and had a girl.

Their love story was not straight-forward, both of them were married when they met. However, June didn't have a good husband and eventually divorce him. Johnny thought he had a chance but June decided not to go with him, probably because of social pressures (cradle snatcher).

During his career, he got hooked up with drugs and eventually got caught for trafficking. Since then, his career went downhill. June also remarried some bum but divorced again (or the bum walked out on her). After his release from prison, Johnny couldn't stop thinking of June and continue to show his love even to the extent of trying to put up their photos in his home. Vivian couldn't stand this and walked out on him. I guess no woman can.

Johnny lost everything during this donw-hill period but eventually, thanks to June, manage to pick himself out of the drug-abuse. He relaunched his career with a live recording record in the Folsom prision, which reportedly, sold millions of copies.

During one of his tour, he proposed to June and their married.

They were happy ever after.

A great story, one of the best I've seen. It was also good to see a happy ending for a singer, which I think is rare, given the tragedies of Elvis, Beatles etc.