—— "Amy" Rewatch Review
At 1:30 in the morning, because the preparation for the judicial examination was approaching severe insomnia, I knew that anxiety was useless for reviewing, and I also realized that the mental will is always difficult to defeat the body's spontaneous physiological response.
Immediately, I thought that a friend who was a self-proclaimed music fan would come to the house the next day. In order not to expose his superficial knowledge of the music field too much, I felt that I could use this opportunity of insomnia to think of something that could be picked up and talked about again.
So I turned on my phone again and started to search for information related to the music song I browsed the most recently - I liked the song "Fly me to the moon" sung by a ten-year-old girl with a convincing jazz voice on Weibo.
As for a singer with a vicissitudes of soul under the young appearance, I guess it's hard to think of anyone other than Amy Winehouse. Her one-of-a-kind voice, bold retro style, and fleeting moment that swept across the music scene like a shooting star at the age of 27. So, after 5 years, I watched the documentary "Amy" again.
As my enlightenment to Amy Winehouse, watching this documentary was not smooth at first. Almost like a biographical template, it describes a "teenager who experienced his parents' divorce, but was influenced by his father's love of jazz and had a great talent in singing. Later, because of his friend Nick's work in a brokerage company, he took a chance on it. A road to a legendary superstar. However, due to various negative reasons such as alcoholism and drug addiction, mental depression, media siege, family and marriage, etc., he finally died unfortunately and prematurely.” A life story like a movie introduction.
To be honest, watching "Amy" again makes me think it's not such a great documentary. The timeline of the character's growth is basically flat and straightforward, and it is not much different from the story of the 40-minute TV documentary that the BBC made because of Amy's death (except for the possibility of another kind of mental anorexia for her death.) ).
This film is not even as clear and compact as the BBC in terms of material arrangement. There is no creative division of Amy herself, her family and friends, or her career as a singer. There is only one universal biographical structure strung together with songs representative of her stages.
What kind of influences and connections with the director's conjecture or reasoning have been caused by her extremely individual personality, there is no trace in this film. In addition to the first time or the audience who do not know Amy Winehouse very well, we will be more looking forward to knowing more unknowing insider stories, a novel perspective or a different way of narration in a documentary. So it's more interesting how biographical documentaries are made. I actually prefer to adopt a strategic approach rather than a categorical approach.
The director himself is also from the United Kingdom. Judging from his resume, he tends to document more about pop music, and he is very sympathetic to Amy's experience in the film. But among the various experiences in her personal life, she is only described in a generalized and labelled way as the well-known one: a little girl with a divorced family, a weak person in love and marriage, an entertainer who was overdrawn by entertainment, consumption, and finally Destroyed his own superstar by taking drugs and drinking to relieve mental stress. Even these identities do not have any primary or secondary emphasis.
These early-known identities will make me subconsciously feel that the more certain the answer is, the more complicated and unknown secrets there will be. And this documentary, as an Oscar-winning video work, did not satisfy my additional desire for entertainment as an audience.
So I once wondered whether the director made this biographical documentary into a job that suits his taste as a certificate when he switched to Hollywood after his early years in Cannes with little success. It is irresponsible to say that if the protagonist of this documentary is not Amy, but any ordinary woman with a similar life experience, this documentary may not have an Oscar.
If I think about the advantages of this documentary, it may be that when I first watched it, I felt infinitely embarrassed at the contrast between the splendor of her life and the final outcome of her life without knowing anything about this person. When I first saw it, as a nominee for the best documentary at the Oscars that year, I only heard a few more mainstream songs including "Rehab". But since this documentary, I have known her people, loved her voice, and fell in love with all her songs.
If I don't know much about music itself, and laymen like it, it may just prove that she is indeed talented in the professional field of singers. At least using this documentary as a starting point, I fell in love with the person portrayed in the documentary, even if I don't know if the idol I liked has passed away, it is a successful star chase.
As a type of documentary, biopics are rarely and difficult to be made into a good film. Although there are still many documentaries about the characters of the former superstars.
If she pays more attention to her private life, Xia Bi is also understandable for the emotional yet humorous lyrics and real-life events. This documentary is also looking for clues in Amy's life journey for the tragic ending of Amy. This may not have been too mediocre as a routine filming in 2015, and now this kind of well-known singer, actor, sports star and even politicians have gone on the road to legend and quickly fell. The route has long been countless in biopic documentaries. .
Because of the control of the family and capital, it is no longer a rare event that the control of the family and capital is regarded as a human cash cow. There is even some recent news about the lawsuit about Britney's accusation against her father. If we were more standing at an ordinary person looking up at a star and watching her hurried across the sky, this documentary might not impress you too much.
But maybe from a different point of view, if there are more similar films that use family video records, or a single-point-of-view style narrative in interviews and lyrics by myself, it will better allow the audience to stand in the common sense of looking at another individual as an individual. With love and care, she is not only a talented and talented jazz singer, but also a vivid ordinary person.
"There is a singer, you will feel that her song and this person have become one, no one can copy or replace it, she is absolutely special. However, she is just an ordinary girl with absolute sensibility, a A girl who loves to sing jazz. In her story, fame is a terrible thing, because fame does not make her happy, but at a loss, even more terrible than death, those flashing lights in the documentary are like some kind of deadly props, And she has to be photographed without fear or even blinking her eyes. Her life, and the beauty of her that we miss because of misunderstandings."
This way of copywriting may be more universal, but it may not actually be the best way. The best presentation is often the unexpected, and even if the director does not follow the final diagnosis of Amy's death, it may be best to explore or demonstrate why she died. Similar to The Simpsons: Made in America.
In addition, you can also take a more in-depth discussion of the music field to make a case study. The documentary mentioned the difference between pure jazz singers and pop singers, but did not do some detailed development. If the choice to enter pop culture and a kind of concert with hundreds of people who are not popular but remain unknown is a possibility of contrasting assumptions, "probably the most successful and the worst decision is to change from a jazz singer to a mainstream. "Celebrities in the Circle" may be a more creative idea in itself.
Because public opinion pressure and online exposure of human flesh are actually appearing more and more frequently in real life, it may be constructive for us to think of a better way out for overwhelmed public figures or to avoid some tragedies.
I even think that if a documentary can properly describe to me the interesting deeds of Amy as a clear-cut, outspoken girl with a poisonous tongue and a star of the same period, it would be better than a simple running account narrative, after all One of the awards clips even referred to Amy as a more popular singer in the UK than the legendary two brothers in Oasis. I have even suspected many times that people's current love for Dua Lipa and others with Amy's characteristic label may come from seeing her shadow in her, and this kind of compensatory psychology may be heard when she sang "Tears". Dry on Their Own" is more convinced.
After thinking about it for a long time, the most suitable way for this documentary style may be to compare the editorial expressions of people's comments on Amy in various periods from the perspective of the mainstream public, because the materials in this film should be existing. These various people and media reviews make up a transition, which itself will be the director's narration and judgment of people's reactions to this whole event with Amy's life as an event: "It's like using Singing with her depression, waiting for her sacrifice, to extract the bitter beauty from her pain.
It's just that when she woke up from the dream, she was frightened by the abnormally mentally half-crazy she we saw, and then disliked it, and then abandoned it and forgotten it. "Rehab", "Tanqueray", "Back to black" These dark song titles are her struggles to express, and music is healing herself as an antidote.
Did she give up to return to her normal self, or did we give up on her by looking away and leaving the tea, or even forgot her. "There is nothing in the world more terrifying than "we thought" at this time.
There is always a natural 50/50 chance of misunderstandings. Talented, splitting the soul and the most personal emotions into songs, it can also be ridiculed or suspected to be just writing those personal emotional experiences into songs, which can win fame and fortune in addition to venting. However, I still think that making a documentary in this way would be more suitable for Taylor Swift to make another film about her creative experience other than "Ms America".
“love & fame is almost killing me”
In the current situation where the whole world is calling for love, it is difficult for us to remember that the incomparable power of love can dispel the shadows and wrecks of love that still exist under the sun-like rays of the sun. It's as quiet as a strong wind crossing the border, because the destroyed ones have been taken away, and the broken mottles left behind no longer bear memories.
So, are we going to talk about her family of origin? Do you want to talk about her problems in emotional marriage? Do you have any regrets about her own personality? Is it because of depression and mental torture? Or to give a conclusion that alcohol and drugs will ruin your life? No need, what we need, may just be attentive, treat her as a person.
I have to admit, we've forgotten about Amy too.
In addition to commemorating, in addition to evaluation, what else can we do? Hopefully someone else will make another, even if not her biographical documentary with those charming figures and unique ideas. A live-action drama film would also work.
In the same year that I saw the documentary, I was watching her "Valerie" at the end of an episode of the American TV series "Do As You Like It".
Maybe it's okay to just have a song.
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