"AMY": Movie Review

 For the last week and a half, I have been playing Amy Winehouse’s greatest hits on replay. My idea of her greatest hits includes: “Back To Black”, “Rehab”, “Stronger Than Me”, “Love Is A Losing Game”, “Me & Mr Jones” and “Valerie”. Although all of her songs are great, these are my picks.

AMY is a documentary about the six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse. It’s a complete two hours of Winehouse telling her own story along with some of her friends, family, and spouse’. This biography goes from her life before fame and gradually shows us her life unraveling, resulting in her tragic death in July of 2011 at the age of 27.

For those of you who don’t know, Amy Winehouse was an English jazz singer who was well known for her killer vocals. She suffered severe depression and an eating disorder. She drank and did many different drugs and when people suggested rehab the first time, her father stepped in and said she didn’t have a problem and she would be fine. Well, look where that got you now, Daddy Winehouse. Her song “Rehab” quotes that her daddy said “No, no, no”.

During this film, I liked how they added an abundant amount of clips to show all the events that happened in her life. Showing her on the red carpet being interviewed, showing that one of the shows she was too trashed to even perform so she sat on the stage, even a clip of the EMTs carrying the body bag from her house in London.

In one part of the documentary, they added a recording of Amy Winehouse saying that drinking was bad and encouraging kids not to drink. I think that is the real lesson in this film, don’t drink, and seriously, do NOT do drugs. The drugs were killing her and on top of that, her alcohol addiction and eating disorder also contributed to her death. So really kids, she was saying choose a different path than she did.

I’m not going to lie, I cried many times during the documentary. Every time her life started to go downhill, I had to look away. It was very poignant, and being a big fan of hers made it even worst on my heart. I would give this documentary a 10 out of 10 stars.

Rest easy Amy Winehouse