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My Darling Vivian
2020 · Film · documentary · 89 min
Directed by Matt Riddlehoover
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.
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It's not just mythology - sometimes it is used to defame and erase people.
Recently I watched the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358273
It was entirely by chance that almost immediately after that I saw the story of his first wife, Vivian Dorraine Liberto, in My Darling Vivian (2020), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7432980
Watching these two films back to back is informative. The end bits of the last film featuring the celebratory gathering of Hollywood personas was specially galling, in context of the counter-narrative.
There is this 'machine' that has perfected the art of deception and perception management and preys upon our inherent human psychological susceptibilities. Even cynics like me are susceptible. The only effective antidote seems to be to turn the tools and means of the machine against its products, or to avoid its products entirely.