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| | Ray (2004): Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | But Ray, this film contends, had been raised in rural Georgia, where he absorbed every kind of music available, from gospel and blues, to country, jazz, and big band (he even started his career playing with a country band, noted briefly in the film). |
 | | The film cuts to this image repeatedly later, the bottles blurred and tinkly in the wind, to show his fading sight and nostalgia for childhood. |
 | | Similarly, the film allows Ray to voice a connection between his addiction to efforts to deal with his own personal, perpetual darkness (he tells Bea that she can't understand the pain he lives, always alone in his blindness and his fear). |
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