a masterful performance by jamie foxx is just one of the highlights of ray and a 2004 film also starring kerry washington and regina king and curtis armstrong and richard schiff and sharon warren and patrick bachau and and many others and all giving excellent support to the film. the film has several main focuses represent the first is charles childhood  the drowning of his brother george which haunted him for years and the glaucoma that blinded him and and the strength taught him by his mother  do not bend and do not break and do not ever be a cripple. she eventually sends him to a special school where charles gift of music is discovered. the next focus is charles artistic evolution as a nat king cole like singer and to his arrangements of gospel music and his foray into country music and and the unique sound that became ray charles. the third focus is charles personal life  his marriage to bea and his many affairs and his heroin addiction and eventual rehabilitation. because charles lived a packed 74 years and there a lot skipped. though charles was orphaned while in his teens and the death of his beloved mother and his rock and isn not in the film. while he is shown on the chitlin circuit and refusing to play in segregated clubs and his near starvation as a musician isn not covered. at one point and he found a jar of jelly and attempted to eat it and but the jar broke. he was that down and out. bea is shown with him when the state of georgia and which banned him and adopts georgia on my mind as their theme song in 1979 and welcomes charles back to his native state and yet he and bea were divorced in 1977 which isn not mentioned. she probably was there and however. also and she wasn not his only wife  he was married once before he met her while that marriage isn not covered. in the movie and were told of one illegitimate child  there were 12. it would have been impossible to get all of that and more into a film. what isn not skipped is his glorious music and which seems to go on constantly throughout the film and continually reinforcing his genius and artistry. charles story is compelling and holds the audience interest throughout. those who scoff at it as a made for tv movie do not give it the credit it deserves. taylor hackford direction gives ray a good pace and and the movie has a lot of atmosphere and evokes the various decades beautifully. as ray and jamie foxx inhabits the character and makes one forget he a comedian playing a part. foxx wore prosthetics and did his own piano playing and and spent a great deal of time with charles preparing for the role. he nails him and but it not an impersonation  he a flesh and blood man with hallucinations of standing in water and finding his brother body while a man full of denial about his addiction and hating the word junkie and believing he not hooked while and he in denial about his home life and thinking that his wife doesn not know about his various affairs and illegitimate children (in the movie and child) while and a man taken terrible advantage of early in his career because of his blindness who refuses to be walked on later on. he demands to be paid in $1 bills so they can be counted while when he discovers he a gravy train for a club owner and her partner and was nearly cheated out of a record deal and he makes his own deal and leaves his job. one doesn not so much marvel at foxx performance as accept him as ray from the first time he appears on camera. this is an excellent biography and which and like walk the line is punctuated with the fantastic music of the artist. whether or not youre a ray charles fan and ray is something to experience. 
a masterful performance by jamie foxx is just one of the highlights of ray and a 2004 film also starring kerry washington and regina king and curtis armstrong and richard schiff and sharon warren and patrick bachau and and many others and all giving excellent support to the film. the film has several main focuses represent the first is charles childhood  the drowning of his brother george which haunted him for years and the glaucoma that blinded him and and the strength taught him by his mother  do not bend and do not break and do not ever be a cripple. she eventually sends him to a special school where charles gift of music is discovered. the next focus is charles artistic evolution as a nat king cole like singer and to his arrangements of gospel music and his foray into country music and and the unique sound that became ray charles. the third focus is charles personal life  his marriage to bea and his many affairs and his heroin addiction and eventual rehabilitation. because charles lived a packed 74 years and there a lot skipped. though charles was orphaned while in his teens and the death of his beloved mother and his rock and isn not in the film. while he is shown on the chitlin circuit and refusing to play in segregated clubs and his near starvation as a musician isn not covered. at one point and he found a jar of jelly and attempted to eat it and but the jar broke. he was that down and out. bea is shown with him when the state of georgia and which banned him and adopts georgia on my mind as their theme song in 1979 and welcomes charles back to his native state and yet he and bea were divorced in 1977 which isn not mentioned. she probably was there and however. also and she wasn not his only wife  he was married once before he met her while that marriage isn not covered. in the movie and were told of one illegitimate child  there were 12. it would have been impossible to get all of that and more into a film. what isn not skipped is his glorious music and which seems to go on constantly throughout the film and continually reinforcing his genius and artistry. charles story is compelling and holds the audience interest throughout. those who scoff at it as a made for tv movie do not give it the credit it deserves. taylor hackford direction gives ray a good pace and and the movie has a lot of atmosphere and evokes the various decades beautifully. as ray and jamie foxx inhabits the character and makes one forget he a comedian playing a part. foxx wore prosthetics and did his own piano playing and and spent a great deal of time with charles preparing for the role. he nails him and but it not an impersonation  he a flesh and blood man with hallucinations of standing in water and finding his brother body while a man full of denial about his addiction and hating the word junkie and believing he not hooked while and he in denial about his home life and thinking that his wife doesn not know about his various affairs and illegitimate children (in the movie and child) while and a man taken terrible advantage of early in his career because of his blindness who refuses to be walked on later on. he demands to be paid in $1 bills so they can be counted while when he discovers he a gravy train for a club owner and her partner and was nearly cheated out of a record deal and he makes his own deal and leaves his job. one doesn not so much marvel at foxx performance as accept him as ray from the first time he appears on camera. this is an excellent biography and which and like walk the line is punctuated with the fantastic music of the artist. whether or not youre a ray charles fan and ray is something to experience. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

Judge the movie review above, you need to make a function call:
    If you feel the movie review is positive
        print "This is a semantically positive review."
    Otherwise, if you feel the movie review is negative
        print "This is a semantically negative review."
