If you're finding a grim exploration or a deeply motivated emotional roller coaster ride with scintillating dialogue, then keep looking because you will not find it in "Country Strong". However, you might find the performances flow naturally almost unscripted subliminal as the story bears no shame in exhibiting country music as a narrative to an all too familiar story and it's okay to feel as you please instead of keeping it bottled inside of you. You should get a charge out of "Country Strong".
The film successfully manages what it intentions were all along and nothing more. It is a country music movie, a story of overcoming one's endless array of tribulations as they embark on a path of self-discovery by not letting any roadblock's get in their way or just simply sink on their own. The movie deserves credit by creating a truthful story because we've faced these issues at one point in our lives finding what we really want and who we are as a person. And of course, if lady luck should approach you, a romantic relationship may not be too far along the way. The continual word of optimism spreads in an unabashed perspective and even when a grey cloud places itself above our heads, the love in one's heart will never fade out.
The critics ostracized the film regarding mostly to the poorly development of the principal leads. Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Kelly Canter who has turned to alcohol as a ways of forgetting about her troubled past and her loveless marriage. While happening she successfully rises to the top of the stage she once performed in and fell off and had a miscarriage because she was drunk. The final scenes demonstrate the theory that it's impossible to forget the past and some past damages could never be repaired. Tim McGraw plays Kelly's manager/husband James Canter who's very passive about his wife's alcoholic binge. Kelly's audience doesn't know what she's going through very much like her hubby who turns a blind eye on her problems. Garrett Hedlund stars as Beau Hutton a rising young talent on the country scene is on the path to greatness by observing what it has done for Kelly and by maintaining his faithfulness towards his lover Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester) and to continue his success performing in dance halls over crowded stadiums.
Sure the back story of Kelly's alcoholic frenzy is never properly executed or her distant relationship with James, it doesn't lose it's audience the thematic intentions or its respect in being a country music movie. There's even a point that Beau refers to Kelly as the token truthful soul of the bunch, until the end when we get a glimpse of what she's really like. With Tim McGraw's case, who was forced into fixing Kelly's problem in the climactic finale, when actually he's oblivious to what's transpiring around him to that he doesn't want to care about.
In the outer reaches of the spectrum, and to successfully keep their profiles low-key, Beau and Chiles pull that off subliminally. In that way they try to keep this movie geared to the country music genre of the film. Country music for centuries has successfully managed to come to grips exhibiting sentimental vibes towards its audience. That may sound clichéd, but this should come as no surprised. But the last scene will touch you as two of the main stars choose to take a backside of things over exceptional fame and that is something we could all praise to.
This is a more refreshing story because it simple without trying to be stupid. It's not afraid to pour its heart out to touch upon issues of one's struggles with fame, love co-existing between two people and still entertain you with great country songs. The message dictated here is don't give up on hope and choose love over fame anytime.
The film successfully manages what it intentions were all along and nothing more. It is a country music movie, a story of overcoming one's endless array of tribulations as they embark on a path of self-discovery by not letting any roadblock's get in their way or just simply sink on their own. The movie deserves credit by creating a truthful story because we've faced these issues at one point in our lives finding what we really want and who we are as a person. And of course, if lady luck should approach you, a romantic relationship may not be too far along the way. The continual word of optimism spreads in an unabashed perspective and even when a grey cloud places itself above our heads, the love in one's heart will never fade out.
The critics ostracized the film regarding mostly to the poorly development of the principal leads. Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Kelly Canter who has turned to alcohol as a ways of forgetting about her troubled past and her loveless marriage. While happening she successfully rises to the top of the stage she once performed in and fell off and had a miscarriage because she was drunk. The final scenes demonstrate the theory that it's impossible to forget the past and some past damages could never be repaired. Tim McGraw plays Kelly's manager/husband James Canter who's very passive about his wife's alcoholic binge. Kelly's audience doesn't know what she's going through very much like her hubby who turns a blind eye on her problems. Garrett Hedlund stars as Beau Hutton a rising young talent on the country scene is on the path to greatness by observing what it has done for Kelly and by maintaining his faithfulness towards his lover Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester) and to continue his success performing in dance halls over crowded stadiums.
Sure the back story of Kelly's alcoholic frenzy is never properly executed or her distant relationship with James, it doesn't lose it's audience the thematic intentions or its respect in being a country music movie. There's even a point that Beau refers to Kelly as the token truthful soul of the bunch, until the end when we get a glimpse of what she's really like. With Tim McGraw's case, who was forced into fixing Kelly's problem in the climactic finale, when actually he's oblivious to what's transpiring around him to that he doesn't want to care about.
In the outer reaches of the spectrum, and to successfully keep their profiles low-key, Beau and Chiles pull that off subliminally. In that way they try to keep this movie geared to the country music genre of the film. Country music for centuries has successfully managed to come to grips exhibiting sentimental vibes towards its audience. That may sound clichéd, but this should come as no surprised. But the last scene will touch you as two of the main stars choose to take a backside of things over exceptional fame and that is something we could all praise to.
This is a more refreshing story because it simple without trying to be stupid. It's not afraid to pour its heart out to touch upon issues of one's struggles with fame, love co-existing between two people and still entertain you with great country songs. The message dictated here is don't give up on hope and choose love over fame anytime.