John's first wife Vivien (Ginnifer Goodwin) — “a wonderful lady” who “went through a lot of hell with him,” in the recollection of Cash's buddy George Jones — is reduced to a small-minded sort with selfish middle-class dreams. Vivien and John's daughter Kathy Cash told AP this week: “That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home.” The screenwriters probably didn't mean to demean her; they just needed to show a failed marriage before the perfect one comes along. The rules of movie romance forbid a hero from having two true loves. But the subsidiary conventions finally don't matter. This is a solo dirge that becomes a love-song duet. And as such it's as down-home and true as the image of John and June singing their hearts out for their fans and themselves — a destiny to which she was born, and he was fated. TIME.com: A Phoenix in the Ring of Fire