There's a terrible idea that you have to suffer for your art, or put everything into it, at the expense of anything and everything else. It's an idea that you see brought up in real life all the time, and it is the basis of a hell of a lot of stories about the process of creating all kinds of art.
Wild Rose is a movie about a Glaswegian lass with big country dreams, played with a massive amount of charm by Jessie Buckley, and for a long time it looks like it's going to be one of those stories. She dreams of getting to Nashville, but has two young kids to take care of and is trapped in her life.
And yet, while she does make it out of Scotland, and all the way to America, she finds that this isn't what she needs, and by the end finds a lovely balance, finding her voice in her own home, and in the love of her family.
She finds that the things you need to say in your art come from your life, not at the expense of it. It's not a matter of either/or, it's a beautiful collision of everything, and you don't have to suffer for it.
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