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Cash and Carter certainly are prettier as portrayed by Phoenix and Witherspoon, yet even though it's glossed up a bit, Walk the Line is dark and seems to be a fair portrayal of the story of how they fell in love.

I wasn't all to excited about Phoenix playing Johnny Cash because I've never been to fond of him as an actor. I think he does a good job here, for once, and deserves a little bit of credit for it, although I wouldn't give him an oscar. Witherspoon, on the other hand, reminds us yet again that she is severely underrated. Without her performance I felt like the movie might not have worked as well as it did.

Cash's early music isn't quite my thing - I prefer the older and wiser Cash's slow and meaningful recordings with American Records to the twangy country of his younger days. Even so, I was very interested in Walk the Line to learn about his past and about his relationship with June Carter.

I think I prefer Ray to this movie because of its more artistic edge and emotional involvement, but Walk the Line was a very good movie and I enjoyed it.