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Dec. 18th, 2005 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaSo, I've been thinking a lot about writing a post about Walk the Line, which I saw last night.
Understand, I heard some of Cash's songs and liked them, had some outlined history of his life, but no idea about anything else. So, I was coming to this very new.
Wait, so a seven-year-old (or so) is supposed to supervise an eleven-year-old (or so) sawing wood? How does that work? I realize that kids were and still are expected to work at grueling and dangerous jobs, but gah, no adults supervising? Reminds me of that stupid forwarded post about how kids in the old day drank gallons of lead paint and played with rusty nails. Let's forget kids cut up by saws because no one was there to turn off the machine when it was acting up.
All I can really say this morning is "Huh, I'll bet the same folks whining about Brokeback Mountain would have gone up to June Carter and say divorce was an abomination and her parents shouldn't even be speaking to her."
I mean, the audience had a snicker when Johnny Cash's first wife was talking about girls sending pictures of themselves in bathing suits when girls have exposed more of themselves in the years following to musicians. Yet, judgmental bints like that lady in the drug store still are around. It's so nice to know some things don't change. *snark off*
What I got from it was there are an awful lot of good people here who think they were bad people because they did bad things. Jerry Lee Lewis' drunken rant about how everyone in the car was going to hell for playing their music (except June, because she was pretty) comes to mind. Maybe the line is whether you keep doing bad things.
Some random critic blamed Cash's drug abuse on June not having a relationship with him. Yeah, uh, being generally upright and thoughtful seemed to be one of the things he liked about her (from what I got from the movie). Plus, the pressure of touring and being on every night is a better explanation of speed abuse than thwarted love.
Maybe I'm weird, but I was watching most June's changes over the years. I mean, I don't know when she wrote her own songs, and she was singing from a pretty young age, but when we first see her in the movie, she was a joker. She could sing, she had a lot of energy, but she thought that she had to make jokes to keep people's interests up. "Why don't you take credit for something once in a while," she said to Johnny. As she got older, she started taking credit for some things too. Joaquin Phoenix got a lot of kudos for his performance, but I liked what Reese Witherspoon did too (since I really only know her from, hey the irony, comedies and teen dramas)
Kinda funny comparing the 'take credit for something once in a while' line with "I will not leave you like that dutch boy with your finger in the dam" at the Ontario concert. Not only taking credit, but taking responsibility.
I thought the Carter parents chasing off the drug dealer was funny.
Understand, I heard some of Cash's songs and liked them, had some outlined history of his life, but no idea about anything else. So, I was coming to this very new.
Wait, so a seven-year-old (or so) is supposed to supervise an eleven-year-old (or so) sawing wood? How does that work? I realize that kids were and still are expected to work at grueling and dangerous jobs, but gah, no adults supervising? Reminds me of that stupid forwarded post about how kids in the old day drank gallons of lead paint and played with rusty nails. Let's forget kids cut up by saws because no one was there to turn off the machine when it was acting up.
All I can really say this morning is "Huh, I'll bet the same folks whining about Brokeback Mountain would have gone up to June Carter and say divorce was an abomination and her parents shouldn't even be speaking to her."
I mean, the audience had a snicker when Johnny Cash's first wife was talking about girls sending pictures of themselves in bathing suits when girls have exposed more of themselves in the years following to musicians. Yet, judgmental bints like that lady in the drug store still are around. It's so nice to know some things don't change. *snark off*
What I got from it was there are an awful lot of good people here who think they were bad people because they did bad things. Jerry Lee Lewis' drunken rant about how everyone in the car was going to hell for playing their music (except June, because she was pretty) comes to mind. Maybe the line is whether you keep doing bad things.
Some random critic blamed Cash's drug abuse on June not having a relationship with him. Yeah, uh, being generally upright and thoughtful seemed to be one of the things he liked about her (from what I got from the movie). Plus, the pressure of touring and being on every night is a better explanation of speed abuse than thwarted love.
Maybe I'm weird, but I was watching most June's changes over the years. I mean, I don't know when she wrote her own songs, and she was singing from a pretty young age, but when we first see her in the movie, she was a joker. She could sing, she had a lot of energy, but she thought that she had to make jokes to keep people's interests up. "Why don't you take credit for something once in a while," she said to Johnny. As she got older, she started taking credit for some things too. Joaquin Phoenix got a lot of kudos for his performance, but I liked what Reese Witherspoon did too (since I really only know her from, hey the irony, comedies and teen dramas)
Kinda funny comparing the 'take credit for something once in a while' line with "I will not leave you like that dutch boy with your finger in the dam" at the Ontario concert. Not only taking credit, but taking responsibility.
I thought the Carter parents chasing off the drug dealer was funny.
