Walk the Line

The film Walk the Line contains many "elements of a good story." A good story is unified in plot, it is credible, interesting, simple and complex, and it handles emotional material with restraint. Walk the Line is a good story because it is unified in plot. A unified plot focuses on a single thread of continuous action, where one event leads up to another. The film is directed to show the audience the life of Johnny Cash. The audience saw how Cash became famous and how drugs effected his career and relationships.

The importance of a suitable title is not overlooked by writers. The title Walk the Line has significance. The film is about Johnny Cash, so the witer gave the film the title of one of Cash's songs.

If someone isn't interested in the characters of the film, there is little chance they will be interested in watching the film at all. Walk the Line has characterization through reactions of other characters. In the film Reese Witherspoon plays June, the friend and singing partner of Johnny Cash. She is a very good partner for Johnny by making him show his fun and relaxed side. She is there for him while he is going through a bad time when he stopped the drugs. A good relationship between the characters makes the film more enjoyable to watch.

Walk the Line is a good documentary of Johnny Cash's life by showing what his life was like before the fame and how it changed during his time of fame. It didn't just show the happy times of Cash's life. It also included all the struggles and bad spots he went through in his life (drug use and his wife leaving him).