Amy is really a very poor girl.
Amy has always been a likable child. She is likable because people think she is always real. She is a casual girl, and her music is also natural, flowing out unknowingly. And her self-awareness is actually stronger than many people who lose themselves under the halo. She knows that she is not the person defined by the surrounding media, and she knows that she is not the person under the halo.
There are only two lies that are irresistible.
The first lie, which all those engaged in art cannot resist, is to be called a genius. You can see that when she started to write songs, she herself was not sure. But when the voice from the outside world began to rise, she herself believed that it was due to her spontaneous demand. This is a lie, and this is a lie that musicians cannot resist. People say that genius should be crazy, it should be its own way, it should be paranoid. This is also a lie. This lie makes all art suitors who have not succeeded learn to be impolite, learn to play with drugs, learn to do crazy things, and learn to be grumpy. Of course, those successful artists are easy to enter a state of crazy selflessness, but most of the time this is not an active entry, it is an unknowingly passive entry. When a person is obsessed with and admires this state, he will lose himself and live in the crazy state of his ideals, and this is often the beginning of destruction. Only when an artist can return to life, can he return to a complete person.
Tony Bernette in the documentary is a sober old artist, very tolerant, humble and peaceful. When he and Amy were recording together, the contrast between the two people's state was very obvious. Tony has always been very calm and peaceful. Amy is very nervous and unconfident. Some people say that this is an expression of humility. In fact, Amy's self-consciousness is resisting. She vaguely couldn't accept the perfect image she believed in the eyes of the public, but she couldn't resist the lie about genius, so she cared very much, she cared very much about her imperfection, so she was very nervous. In the end, I think her self-awareness really awakened for a while, she was standing on the stage where she was forced to stand, and she did not sing. She didn't care about the opinions of these people in the audience, and didn't care about those who held her in the palm of her hand. When this lie revealed its ugly and greedy true colors, she truly resisted. It's just a pity, it's just that all of this is too cruel and cruel, but there is really no one around her who can help her, but the net is too dense, she has nowhere to escape, and the final counterattack can only be life. Finish.
This is a naked murder.
There is a saying in the film that is very good. There is no textbook in the world that teaches people how to deal with a reputation that is too strong. People will warn the artist before she becomes famous. But the feeling of being in it is that nothing else can compare with it, and no one can imagine what she has to bear. In the end, Amy said, if one day I can return my singing to heaven, and I can walk on this street, without paparazzi and people’s arguments, then I am willing to return it. I know she is telling the truth.
Another lie is about love.
When she loved Blake, she completely defined herself by loving Blake. She trapped herself in that frame and kept suggesting to herself that I was a person who could not live without Blake. I think people sometimes have this tendency and like to define themselves as fragility. Some people like to say that I am a road idiot. Some people like to say that I get sick so easily. Some people say that I am stuck in a broken love and can't help myself. Some people like to say that my childhood was not happy, so I was particularly insecure. Some people like to say that I just love to be strong, and I am a person with a strong appearance and a fragile heart. These are half-truth lies. Man is an animal lacking love, and he pursues the feeling of being loved all his life. It is an irresistible lie to define oneself by fragility and enjoy the feeling of being pityed by others. Amy said to himself, Blake and I also have the shadow of childhood. We understand each other's vulnerability, so we are destined to be together. So she defined herself as someone who could not live without Blake. And this is not true. When she was broken in love, she continued to strengthen all these self-suggestion, thinking that she really couldn't live anymore. Later she said that she thought that creating music was an outlet. This is also half right and half wrong. Music is an export, but that’s because creation can make people escape from the definition of oneself, escape from the emotions that oneself indulge in, and observe one’s actions and thoughts from the perspective of a bystander. Once you can escape from one’s own If you define yourself, the pain and sorrow will become a story. Of course, the pain is still real, and occasionally it will still catch you. But as long as you find a way to escape, it will become lighter again.
When people use vulnerability to define themselves, in exchange for the feeling of being loved, people will become more and more vulnerable. And Amy is such a person who does what she wants. She can pursue the feelings she likes without hesitation. So she indulged in it, indulged in the need for blake, indulged in the need for her father. This brought her into a very dark world. In addition, her self-awareness made her unable to face the big net woven by the media, so she let it fall asleep, she indulged in alcohol and drugs, escaped, and let her feelings fall into a deep sleep. Eventually led to her death.
This is really an extremely sad story. But people often think that a genius is destined to follow this path, which is completely wrong. She is a victim of this crazy world of lies, and a victim of her own fragile lies. This is the murder of the whole world, and it is also the murder of her herself. Actually so close, the sober call she made with her friend before she died. She was so close to waking up. She returned to a normal person. She remembered those friends who had happy memories with her, and remembered that music was just a little thing that made her happy when she was 15 years old. But the power from the outside world was too strong, and she suffered too much. Waking up was too painful for her, so there was no way, so she did not find a way out in the end.
It's really sighing. All this happened, this crazy world squeezed the life of a young girl. And how did she go to destruction in the lies of others and herself. I don't know how people who have mocked Amy in a talk show will feel like watching this movie. I don't know how the person who took her sleepy out of the house and put it on the stage felt like seeing her passing away. Those who love her are also living in a lie. Look at Blake. In fact, Blake doesn't love her at all. After two years of detoxification, he woke up and said that he didn't know why he had to live that kind of life before. But Blake is really cold and hateful. Look at her agent, Salaami, her best friend. None of them are more sober than her, so they can't save her either.
Any definition will make people lose themselves. And often those seemingly fascinating definitions, so-called artists, so-called geniuses, so-called fanatical love, so-called broken-hearted people, so-called missing childhood, so-called public personality, so-called persistence in dreams, these infatuated definitions are precisely the most dangerous. , The most destructive power, the most self-lost. Amy's story is a real, naked, bloody story, how heartbreaking. I hope that everyone who sings, those who cried bitterly during the competition, can remember themselves when they were children, the simple happy mood when singing a song, and the countless happy little ones in life. It’s good to remember that music is one of thousands of happiness.
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