The Couchpotatoes
Interesting music biography about Amy Winehouse. Even if it's not your kind of music her story is worth to be told and filmed. It's not my kind of music, besides a couple numbers that I like, but the documentary is captivating. Seeing how a talented young woman destroys her life with alcohol and drugs could be an example for the next generation. An example on how not to go on that path. The turning point in her life was falling in love with Blake Fielder. He's just the kinda guy a girl like Amy should never have met. With her tendencies of addiction falling in love with a druggie like him could only mean her downfall. She might look strong at some points but she's obviously also very vulnerable. Her dedication to her husband and her father were not the smartest moves in her short life. Would she still be alive without meeting him? We will never know. Amy is full of unseen footage from her childhood till her dead and for fans a must see. But even for people like me it's certainly worth a watch.
sofi-60768
The documentary is about the great jazz- slash pop singer Amy Winehouse, how she lived her life, her passion for her music, and at the end, at the age 27 sadly died from her many years of bulimia, drug and alcohol abuse.I personally think that the documentary is a great idea, to give an insight of what the great British singer struggled with on and of the stage. No life is perfect, but that may be an underestimation for Amy's life. The only thing that brought pure happiness and joy to the life she lived, was when she wrote her songs, played her music and were with the love of her life, Blake. It's definitely a very strong telling and got my mind start questioning some things, but also cleared some things I have been asking myself earlier before I watched the documentary. For example is her lyrics more understandable to me now. I know now that "stronger than me" is about her older boyfriend who became the woman in their relationship as the time went by, "back to black" is Amys relationship to Blake before he left his former girlfriend, where he played ping-pong between these two relationships, but particularly her prizewinning hit "rehab" have crossed my mind many times, but now I understand the lyric perfectly. I have often wondered why her dad was mentioned, that she didn't wanted to go to rehab, and her dad agreed that it wasn't necessary. I never understood that part, but now I know this was the reality. Amys father had her unconditionally love, and that was a priceless power to give the man, who abandoned his family when Amy was about seven or ten years old. I'm torn between what I think about how the documentary is put together. I like the idea that it's videotapes from her whole life that have been put together, and then having the people who meant something in her life talking in the meanwhile, but then again it's just a shame that the quality is really shitty, because of a lot of shaking hands holding the cameras. But when that have been said I think it's an extremely teach-full documentary that I probably will look back at when I see or hear about another famous person who is being followed and getting a hard time from the journalists and his/hers fans.
Sissy Taylor
Amy was the real deal. And so is this doc. Friends, family and colleagues are interviewed, they aren't shown talking at all and it works. There is no narration, but her lyrics tell the story of her rise and heartbreaking fall. Her knockout voice and songs were the key and her lyrics makes you realize they always were. Watching her fall apart on screen is like a train wreck. As she becomes richer and richer and more and more famous, it becomes comes clear that she wasn't equipped to cope and that was where her fall begins. The doc moves from cell phone footage and TV performance to the paparazzi mobs and it becomes clear Amy was cursed with an array of dysfunctional behaviors that would com-bust into self-destructionYou'll pretty much want to watch more of Amy nonstop. There's no spoiler alert needed here because we all know how this one ends, and losing her again made it all the more hard to watch, but the doc ends on a high note, with her duet with her idol Tony Bennett. What a waste.
