This World Won't Break

This is a very nice movie with nothing original 'per se' but very well constructed and put together. The movie's pace is slow and mostly steady and the length is just perfect as it doesn't hurry the main character's way thru the movie.

I say that the movie by itself is not original because (I think) it just rips off the best of some great films, as it should be, that, I loved. There are great John Hughes' establishing shots, awesome Michael Mann's slow driving scenes and then some Paul Thomas Anderson's characters and....well, not going to spoil what else.

Even though the photography and visuals are very nice I think that the director tried every shot there is in the book, and that was kind of distracting. There are these hard felt scenes that could have been shot with a fixed camera yet the director chose to use some hand held camera that's moving and taking the gravity from the acting.

The acting was really nice and toned down, but for a movie with not that deep of a cast there are a couple too many actors. I LOVED the main's character father acting.

The soundtrack is really nice and well performed but sparse for what you would expect to be a movie about a musician, but very well measured, no complaints there.

Being almost the same person as Wes, I find this movie extremely touching, moving, and lovable. I personally, and I'm sure many songwriters, can relate to the story and can only hope to have that chance. It's slow, it's drama, but it's real.

In this part of Southern USA, inseparable from its Music, Wes Milligan, Country 'n Western undiscovered star is living like a Bum. Unlucky in love he's made disappointment a life-choice, and his talent just re-enforces his reputation as a Bum. "This World Won't Break" proceeds slowly, with interspersed numbers, sometimes with light accompaniment, sung mainly by Wes, with his 'capo on G-fret' country guitar. Now 40 years old, Wes's life dilemma is ironically simple. Like Shakespearian, Prince Hamlet's epic monologue, "Nobler" for him to suffer life's slings and arrows in permanent "meloconia" as a drunk than to face up to Life, and "break" from that past to which he's become so attached. Wes is at his own personal Crossroads. And this movie is his personal soliloquy. Many will complain that it's too long, though true C&W/Blues fans will probably argue the reverse. But as a GENUINE piece of born-in-America culture, it's worthy enough just for being that.

The old man playing electric guitar at the beginning of the movie is famed jazz guitarist and composer, Donnie Gilliland. He was a sign artist with SUN RECORDS, the fss add mouse recording company own by SAM PHILLIPS, who discovered JOHNNY CASH.

One of Gilliland's hits, BOP BOP BABY, was featured in the movie WALK THE LINE.

The lead actor and real life singer/songwriter Greg Schroeder gives a realistic and touching portrayal as Wes Milligan, a down and out troubadour trying to realize his dream of being a well respected musician, but his personal troubles and own self doubt threaten to derail his hopes forever. It's a movie for all the dreamers out there that continue to create as they stare into the void of being forgotten by time, place and maybe even to those around them because they've no results to speak of.