Because Everybody Else Has One

I'm starting to think that Love and Mercy has spoiled these kinds of films for me. This review is also up at Channel 24 What it's about The true story of Hank Williams, the legendary country musician who set the course for popular music for the next half century but whose personal life was every bit as troubled as the bleak lyrics of his songs suggested. What we thought Hank Williams was, in no uncertain terms, one of the single greatest and most influential figures in 20 th century popular music. His songs of love and heartbreak all but entirely defined what country music would be from then and on and, just as importantly, if you can't hear the beginnings of early rock and roll in his recordings, then you're clearly not paying any attention at all. It's a pity then that that this extraordinary – if highly troubled - talent has received such a thoroughly ordinary biopic in the form of I Saw the Light. With its tiresomely familiar tale of ...