Walk the Line: 4 stars out of 4!

Reese Witherspoon as June Carter and Joaquin Rivers as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line (2005).

For only the second time in 2005, went to a movie theater today to see a movie, the excellent Walk the Line.

Recommend it highly to anyone who ever tapped a foot to Johnny Cash’s music, or remembers him and June Carter as a twosome. The acting performances by Rivers and Witherspoon are first-rate. “Oscar material” as they say. Such a trite expression, but it's true about these two. Outstanding movie.

Without drawing much attention to the fact, it is a Christian film. Based on two books by Cash about himself and his life, there is quite a bit about faith, hope, love, forgiveness, and redemption in this film. The Christian themes are so sublty interwoven with the plot and characters, it might actually give some of Cash’s secular fans something to think about, or plant a seed of faith here or there, without them realizing it.

Want to develop this line more in another post.

It’s Saturday night and I’m the First Lector at the 9:30 Mass in the morning and I can’t spend as much time writing about this as I would like.