It's late in the spring for it but we're finally getting our first thunderstorm of the year. One-thirty in the morning, and I'm listening to the rumbles of noise rolling around up in the clouds and the rain pouring out of the holes of the guttering on the house next door. What's really nice is the way it manages to block out most of the other noises in this town that people call a city.
You can almost believe that you're anywhere listening to a thunderstorm; they become the environment so much, that they are all that exist. Although I'm sitting in my kitchen in Eastern Ontario, I can pretend I'm anywhere else in the world with no problem. Thunder and rain. Rain and thunder.
Sounds like I've got the beginning of a country song there doesn't it? I was sitting in my kitchen/thunder and rain all around/thinkin' I could be just about anywhere/But if you aren’t there beside me/What's the point of being there/just too much thunder and rain.
Well, I never said I could write song lyrics, let alone country song lyrics, but I finally got to see Walk The Line last night on DVD, and my mind is still tumbling around from the experience. The performances, the music, the love story, the pain, and it was all packed into just over two hours of film. Damn it was a lot to take in, almost too much.
But maybe that was the point too. That's what Cash's life was like, so much to take in it was overwhelming. The poverty, the death of his brother, his father's abuse, the celebrity, the guilt, the pain, and of course, the love.
If Walk The Line is anything it’s a love story about two people finding themselves and each other and making each other happy. The love, as depicted by Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix, of June Carter and Johnny Cash looked to be something so tangible that if you were with them you could have reached out and touched it.
When you look at the fact that Johnny only lasted three or four months without her, and hurried out of this world to join June, you can't help but believe what you see up on the screen. Watching Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix performing together on stage for the concert footage of the film was seeing perfect harmony in action. Nobody could look at those two and not doubt that the characters they were portraying were made for each other.
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