It's a cliche that no one speaks ill of the dead: when those you are depicting have some control over the story - as in the movie Walk the Line - awkward truths tend to be swept aside. Here a little more of the truth seeps out to give depth to the complexities of Johnny Cash's life and a glimpse of a time so different from our own its hard to believe it was less than a century ago. That alone makes this an interesting watch and some of the archive material overlaid with John's own commentary is fascinating.
