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Lionsgate has released Asif Kapadia's horrifically tragic documentary, simply entitled Amy, and it's about as depressing as these things get.
From the amount of footage available, one gets a feeling that there were always video cameras around. Using that footage, the film follows Amy Winehouse from her seemingly happy teens, with friends, through her quick rise in popularity and success, and her downward spiral.
The story told by the film, and every documentary has its own perspective, shows a teen, unable to grasp her rise, along with what appear to be bad decisions at every stage of her career. The film traces her fall through her facilitators on one side, be they family or business contacts, versus those friends and co-workers who continue, to the very end, to attempt to pull her back.
The two sides are as obvious as night and day.
Amy is a quality film, but is not easy to take, as the sheer amount of footage, shows in remarkable, pin-pointed detail, her abuses, poor choices, cries for help and ultimate demise, through the betrayal of many of those around her, inclusive of family.
If there is a lesson here, it's a hard one, but if anyone can learn from the errors shown, and benefit, at least something positive can arise.
On a tech level, the documentary is superb, with normally great audio. The only thing that I found odd, were that her lyrics, which are shown on screen during her songs, are very soft focus. Not certain why that decision was made.
Seeing her words, as you hear them, adds an interesting strength to the film.
What a loss...
Image - 5
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
