Amy (2015)

Very Cool!!!

Too much of everything

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting in this movie is really good.

After seeing this film's trailer, I knew that Amy's death was a way for enough people to not mind their own business after the hell that she went through. This film is another reason why Amy probably had things about her be released without her full consent. Her father, drugs, husband, fame, and divorce all gave her negative influences. I know those things from trying to find information on her discography on Wikipedia. But, there needs to be a film to regurgitate those facts out? I think not.

The movie is about a women "Amy", in the movie you'll see the start of her career and you follow Amy's career till the end they also tell some stories about Amy. Amy is drug and alcohol addicted, Amy died at the end because of overdose. My opinion to the movie: i think it's a boring documentary, but also a very eye opening documentary.

I was initially daunted by the 120 minute running time of this film, but I was glued from beginning to end and felt as if I had been watching it for about half that time. I have never seen anything like this before. It was like watching Breaking Glass with Hazel O'Connor or Stardust with David Essex, but they were fictitious stories acted out for entertainment, and this was real people with a real star and yet such a familiar rags-to-riches story with a tragic ending. And because the story is the stuff of 'rock star' urban legends, you think that someone is going to step in to prevent the inevitable, and yet that never happens.I say that the people in this film are real, but that is not entirely the case, because it has been skillfully edited to present villains and good guys: those who are motivated by money, fame or drugs; and those, like Amy herself, who are driven by love. I don't think that you are supposed to believe these caricatures, this is just the film-maker's view of Amy's story, and I am sure that every single person involved would tell a different tale from the one we are presented with in this film. And for me, that is what makes it extraordinary, because although it is a documentary that presents a gripping true story played out by real people in real life, it is predominantly an art-form giving one person's perspective just like a novel or a painting does.I would just like to add that I am an Iron Maiden fan who has never listened to Amy Winehouse in my life. She had a amazing voice, but her style was not to my taste. That does not in any way detract from the brilliance of the film or, indeed, Amy herself.

I have known my share of addicts. Even though Amy was famous, she was no different than any other addicts. I am glad the film makers showed her as not just an out of control addict. She knew what she was which is what makes it even more heartbreaking. She was a kind, beautiful lost soul. May she RIP and find the peace she could not find on this Earth.