Thursday, December 29, 2011

Hurt (2003)


HURT  (2003)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Mark Romanek
In what was probably one of the last things he did, a visibly frail Johnny Cash sings Trent Reznor's "Hurt", while sifting through the memories and souvenirs in a personal roadside museum. They say that when you're dying, your life passes before your eyes, and that's exactly what seems to be going on here. In the film's eeriest image, wife June Carter, who died before Cash did, stands at his shoulder like a guardian angel, waiting to take the old man home. He looks like he's ready to go.