Revisited after two years. The tragedy of Amy's short life is not as much indignation and sadness as before.
Amy has a genius and self-consciousness. For her 15th birthday, she can already sing birthday songs for her friends with her iconic singing voice in the future. There is no explanation in the film, when she learned the guitar and when she started to compose and write songs. But from the round typeface when she wrote the lyrics, and the fact that she stopped going to school at the age of 18, she should have been enlightened very early.
She has the characteristic precocity of genius. An unfortunate childhood catalyzed her keen sensibility. She started taking antidepressants at the age of 13, and began to binge-eating to induce vomiting to lose weight at the age of 15. Her mental pain was long and lasting, so her consumption after becoming famous became more acute and rapid.
In the time context of the documentary, you can see the complete appearance of Amy from unknown to famous. Before it was the sensuality, shyness, and pimples of a precocious girl. After debuting, I started to find my own makeup-a towering wig updo, thick upturned eyeliner, and a tight short dress skirt. A little bit became a bone grinder. Physical wastage may be due to eating disorders that began before the age of 15, and overall a history of little restrained drug and alcohol abuse. The mental exhaustion comes from the capricious and desperate love, the continuous low state of creation, the hurt of public opinion, the paparazzi have no dead spots to shoot, and the irreparable relationship with his father.
After gaining a reputation that was impossible to imagine, she went from being a creator to an idol. She was harassed by paparazzi, and her life was insulated from reality. By her side, there is no relationship of spiritual equality, understanding, and companionship from beginning to end. What's even more regrettable is that there is no sincere guidance and advice from people over here.
Surrounding her are people who exist mainly because of her commercial value-record companies, agents, producers, etc., as well as cooperating artists. They are all self-conscious travelers and only bring her creative ideas. There is little spiritual comfort understanding of the impact and the impact of economic income. Love and understanding, they don't want to give. Her girlfriends are too far away from her world, they can only give some high school girlfriends the trivial admiration and verbal care. Even if they grow up together, there is an insurmountable distance from her heart. Love and understanding are not that they don't want to give, but that they can't.
There is also a terrible, mutual predatory love. Blake is far less talented than her, and perhaps the same pain makes them empathize. Although love is hard to ask the reason, it can be fatal. Especially when the other party pulls you down in the name of love. In the end, even Amy himself admitted that being with Blake felt like he was going to swallow him. Even so, she still could not escape. For the first time in love, she wrote back to black and an entire album, sending herself to the altar of super idols in one fell swoop. Splitting and rejoining repeatedly injured and consumed, and finally divorced, once again self-exiled, destroying oneself. When everyone saw what a wrong relationship this was, there was still no one who could help Amy, no parents, friends, or work partners.
The relationship with his father may have already paved a dark background for Amy's fate. This man who had no sense of responsibility and almost missed her entire childhood, and divorced her mother since she was eight years old, suddenly became deeply involved in her life after she became famous. But the tragedy is that he is the most powerful and selfish type of person. Even in the face of her daughter, she never showed pure love (at least not in the film). In the middle of the first time when my friends drove Amy to the drug rehabilitation center, they catered to her and turned back home. Constantly urging her to accept business performances during her mental breakdown. I missed several opportunities to persuade my daughter to go to drug rehabilitation. Never gave her emotional advice. When Amy's reputation fell and he was on vacation abroad for a long time, under the name of visiting, he brought a reality show crew to give Amy a head-on, who was troubled by paparazzi. Amy in the reality show said sadly, if you want money Dad, then you tell me, I will give you money, but why do you hurt me like this. This is all the epitome of their father-daughter relationship.
Perhaps the pain and consumption that Amy felt in falling in love has long been buried in the shadow of the original family of clichés. Even if she knows that love is causing great harm to her, there is no way to escape.
There is also the inevitable conflict between idols and mass media. Amy has never found a way to live with the outside world. At the beginning of her fame, she responded sincerely in interviews. She never thought that she would be so famous. What she prefers is still singing to few people on the bar stage. The ruthlessness of the business world is extremely cruel to the innocent and innocent people. That's why she will be completely bored after several cycles of becoming popular, falling into a drug scandal, injured creation, and becoming more famous. Her real life is already a false life that revolves purely around its commercial value and is constantly being symbolized. Except for a brief and complete escape caused by drug abuse, there is no way to go. Therefore, after sweeping the Grammys, she told her girlfriend that it would be boring to be without drugs at this moment. That's why she said, if I lose all my talents and wander the streets without the burden, I am willing.
Amy joined the 27-year-old club. The problems in her life are unsolvable even if they are asked. We have had a hard life in our own lives, so where are we qualified to accuse a genius of how to protect ourselves. After all, what is the matter of talent, we may not experience it in an exhausted life.
Amy's idol and predecessor Tony Bennett said at the end of the film that he wants to tell Amy who hasn't realized what life is like, take your time, you are too important.
Unfortunately, as the rapper who loved Amy said, he witnessed Amy holding the tin foil and pressing down the lighter in front of him, and said in regret, This is someone who is trying to disappear. Yes, Amy is trying to disappear. The disappearing genius. A genius with bad luck.
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