![]() ![]() When Amy suffers and survives her first overdose, a close acquaintance summarizes the urgings of a doctor and those around her to explain that a "petite" young girl cannot maintain the level of drug and alcohol abuse that led to the overdose. She says that when Amy told her father, Mitch Winehouse, as well, he also dismissed it. She muses that she essentially ignored the statement and forgot about it, thinking it was a silly teen girl activity that Amy would soon grow out of. =-=-=-The film avoids editorializing at this point or any other-the format, consistent with Kapadia’s earlier, also critically-acclaimed documentary, Senna, involves audio interviews and raw footage, but no commentary-yet no editorializing is required in order for a viewer to feel distraught-the next few sentences to come out of Janis’s mouth are enough. In a voiceover during this sequence, the singer’s mother Janis Winehouse recounts the moment a young Amy tells her mother about discovering a great new "diet"-eating and then vomiting-that allows her to eat without gaining weight. A teenaged Winehouse, snacking with her friends, laments between mouthfuls that she’s a pig and she cannot help herself. ![]() ![]() Amy Winehouse learned those ugly rules of womanhood early, as footage from Asif Kapadia’s devastating, much-praised documentary Amy reveals. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |