What's missing in "Ray"
I just finished watching the movie "Ray" about Ray Charles. It was good as far as any biography is interesting and Jamie Foxx's acting was wonderful. The movie said a lot about Ray Charles' addiction and recovery from heroin. They made a lot of points of how bad and dangerous heroin is. However, they completely sugar coated and blew over his addiction to women! They made it look and seem like it's just natural and expected for a celebrity to be unfaithful and have many partners. Hollywood does it again, making deviant sexual behavior look normal and ok. They seemed to praise him that he didn't "leave his family." However, I did like how one of his mistresses put it when he said he wouldn't leave his family. Paraphrasing: Between your me, the dope and your music, you already left your family. And he did. I just would have liked it more if I knew he gave up women with the drugs, or if his wife suffered through years of emotional ulcers while he was out on the road.
I suppose I shouldn't speak ill of the dead. After all, this is just a Hollywood movie and not specifically a biography. I just can't stand the blatent sugar-coating of such behavior.
KA


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I felt the same way after watching "Ray" and I really think that he wasted most of his life with the drinking, drugs, and women. I recommend "Hotel Rwanda" for a better husband-wife relationship (although it is a heart-wrenching movie and quite disturbing for those of us who have a hard time understanding such evil as genocide).
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