So back from the movie, "Crazy Heart" a total acting tour de force on the part of Jeff Bridges. One has to wonder when actors have so many smoking scenes if they are really inhaling. Man he sure looked like it. So this one is pretty clear. The Amerian Dream soaked in whiskey and nicotine. Bad Blake our hapless anti-hero should be totally unsympathetic. He squanders his American Dream, not to mention his career, reputation, four wives and a child. In the end as it does so often in Hollywood and one hopes in real life, love is transforming, but not in the way you think it will be. As the title song says, "Falling feels like flying for a little while." The real art in this movie is that you like Blake and root for him from beginnig to end, even when he does somethign as heinous as lose the young son of his girlfriend as he takes him to a bar. But the American Dream is often about the underdog. We like to keep that one-foot-after-another fantasy going. If you just try hard enough ............ That kind of thing. But country music, authentic, non glam country music is at the heart of this film. And it could easily be argued that no genre talks to the American Dream more.