The documentary "Amy" contains a quote from the protagonist of the film, Amy Winehouse: "Get something good out of pain." At the same time, through In the video, people also saw the expression on Amy's face when she said these words, there was helplessness, sentimentality, frankness, thinking, and some daze, probably because these beautiful things were hard-won and so precious, so let me say this. The person who said the sentence hesitated and sighed, thinking a thousand thoughts.
From the private video of Amy in front of her, a small number of performance pictures, award-winning pictures and interviews with relevant people used in the film, the audience can see that her pain has a long history, but it seems that it can never be eliminated, and it is everywhere, when she is sober Pain, her expression in the most phantasm is also painful. She was in pain when she was restrained to participate in a commercial performance, and she was miserable when she was besieged by malicious onlookers. In her crazy love, she was full of pain and scars. Her singing is rough and vicissitudes of life, natural and mellow, as if there is an accumulation of unrelieved pain in her voice, which makes people have to speculate on what kind of torture and torture the young singer's soul is going through, and this documentary seems to be I want to answer this question, and I want to explore what makes Amy's life so rushed...
British director Asif Cappadil's more striking works are the short film "The Sheep Thief" and the documentary "Forever Car" "God", although the lengths vary, but they are all well completed. In this "Amy", Asif Capadil exerts the advantages of being skillful, clear in structure, skilled in technique, and not deliberately inadvertent in focus. Sharp, yet powerful and profound, the audience unknowingly accepts the message and emotion the film wants to convey.
On July 23, 2011, the sullen and fragile Amy Winehouse passed away. It was judged that the death was due to drinking too much. Therefore, one of the most outstanding jazz female singers of our time also hurried into the music industry. The "27 Years Old Club". Talented women who wither in the good season, always make people feel sorry The incident said: "Life will teach you how to live, if you can live long enough." Unfortunately, Amy didn't live long enough to learn to mellow and reach this unfriendly and beautiful world. Coexistence, it is too late to look down on some things, see some people clearly, and it is too late to show her more talents.
In an interview two years before Amy's death, a reporter asked: "Where do you think you will be in many years?" Amy replied: "Dead, in a place no one knows about." From this passage Amy's pessimism and despair seem to be felt, as if her death was doomed long ago, just as she made an appointment for "The Hall of Valor in the Music Circle", through the documentary shows the growth process, private videos, The record between the lines, the audience will find that this pessimism and despair is infiltrated in Amy's bones, and the determination of death is not just a joke in the name of coolness, nor is it a pessimistic and world-weary youthful and melancholy, but a young man. Famous, sensitive and fragile, insecure and not sophisticated enough to protect themselves forever and completely.
Amy in the film is a simple and pure girl who likes music. She has a lot of discomfort and panic in this world that advocates fame and fortune. She always insists that she is a jazz singer, not a star who gains popularity. She doesn't want to be overexposed, she doesn't want to be watched, and she's even more afraid of being attacked. She just wants to make her own music, and then live the life of an ordinary person quietly and freely. But these basic demands, in the era of pan-entertainment she lives in, are almost the same. It is a luxury, a supreme ideal.
Amy, who grew up in a broken family, is insecure and lacks love. The love of fans and close friends cannot replace her parents and love. However, family and love are the fatal wounds of Amy. Her father, who was ruthlessly absent during her growing up, was in Amy. After Amy became famous, he appeared in Amy's life and tried to gain more benefits by controlling Amy's business performance and appearance rate. From Amy's attitude towards love, it was easy to find that she was a fortune-teller. A girl who loves desperately, when she loves someone, she will love with all her strength and with all her heart, even if the other person is not worthy of her efforts. However, such love is too strong, and it is also destructive while generating creativity. .
Back then, Amy, who was infatuated with Black, dedicated a classic album "Back to Black" to the world. Now that I hear it, there is a peculiarly bitter return.
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