Ray is a biographical movie and focusing parts of Ray Charles' private life and music career. Ray Charles is a legendary musician, as many people know. He tried to integrate different kinds of music and helped to social change in American culture. He was lost his sight when he was a kid because of a disease, and he had to learn to live without seeing when his childhood. The movie built two main images. One of them is his little brother and other is his mother. His brother symbolized his fears because he died when he was a child and Ray couldn't save him and blame himself because of his death. And the mother image is symbolized his strong parts, cause his mother was the one of the supporter and teacher about the new life without seeing. Actually, I don't want to give too much specific information about the movie, I want to talk about being a black blind person in 1950's USA. It is important because racism had strong effects on all over the country those years. People were not equal and the black people were discriminated because of their skin colors. So, Ray Charles was the black and blind people in such an environment. Also, the regulations for disabled people were not developed properly, and there was not enough consciousness about being disabled. Therefore, he had to rely on only his remained senses to continue his life. It should be really hard to get used a life without seeing, especially if you know the better option.

The movie Ray was an incredibly big critical hit in 2004 and earned a spot in film history as the first African-American biopic to be nominated for 6 Academy Awards and in my opinion rightfully the movie truly earned those Academy Award nominations simply for the stunning editing techniques. This film is a biographical film that is based on the real-life blind musician Ray Charles and his successes and downfalls that also revolves around the wicked, self- indulgent effect that fame can have and how it causes his social life to quietly fall down a hole. The fact that the film deals with the cause of fame means that it is very honest, realistic and confronting in my opinion because of how some people are naive to the consequences of being famous. The message of this is also carried along in a very well made flow throughout the development of the film as we get to know Ray Charles and his past and we get to know some of Ray Charles's inner demons that show us that even the most perfect people can have flaws. The film itself is very well made purely because of the even pacing, exciting editing and ear- pleasing music, and with all that a dedicated performance by Jamie Foxx is given to execute it. This will probably be one of the more exciting biopics you will see in your life, so why not give this a watch?

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.Early on, we run into Quincy Jones, who I would not have guessed had any connection to Ray Charles. Of course, not really knowing much about either of them, that is not surprising.I love the conflict of Gospel music and a more upbeat sound, that somehow changing the music to the words makes it "devil music". How realistic this was as a criticism is not known to me. It seems silly, but then again, the 1950s were a silly time.And who knew Charles was a junkie? Maybe not as bad as some, but it is crazy to think that heroin was just as much a part of the music scene then as it was in other times (such as 1990s Seattle). I had assumed it was more obscure, with folks like William S. Burroughs being the primary users.

Jamie Foxx really did an outstanding performance of playing Ray Charles. Yes he didn't look like him or sound like him, he took the risks and did what he had to do in order to be recognized as Ray Charles. I found the storyline pretty interesting because I never heard of the guy before until I saw the Blues Brothers movie like a few years ago. Its not easy being a blind person and touring around the world without knowing what's going on visually. But hey if Stevie Wonder can do it then Ray Charles or any other blind artists can do it also! :) As long as you are talented, hard working and a good decent advocate, you have got the job buddy! Man,the music was so uplifting in this film,I just danced and sang the songs out loud (lucky enough no one was at home). I mean if the man himself was alive today and came to my country to play a concert, heck I will be the first in the queue haha! Seriously though, Ray Charles is a legend!!