Amy Winehouse: a name that can fill a sentence on its own. Yet, no matter what anyone says, there was a lot of emptiness in his brief and inscrutable existence. The cultural void, the human void, the void of the dozens and dozens of alcoholic bottles “quaffed” with tears, sweat and cigarettes. Drugs, the wicked life. How well do we think we know a star? Always too little. In this review of Back to Blacklet's see how the director Sam Taylor Johnson and the actress Marisa Gabrielle Abela they bring this life to the stage, dystopian without saying anything, and tremendously true.
Once upon a time in Camden Town
Once upon a time in Camden Town, in the beating heart of London, an anachronistic princess who lived with his mother. She had a father who drove a shiny black taxi, typical of that London mentioned above, while her confidant was the Grandmothera woman who is undoubtedly rigid, but with a timeless sweetness.
Princess Amy was restless, somehow always dissatisfied with her life, although she didn't want anything in particular: she wanted great love, a family, and to live a happy life. She didn't care about money and wealth. Princess Amy she abruptly woke up from her dream when she met the prince Blake who ensnared her, seducing her with his arrogant manner.
Obviously, Amy Winehouse's story and life are in fact very far from a fairy taleyet looking at her can't help but give us that feeling: a princess who grew up on the modern asphalt of an inner-London neighborhood who resembles, in every way, to a fairytale world made of green hills, ruined castles and the most modern graphites of today. His story is hypnotic, a story of success and self-destruction.
“Girls don't sip: they slurp!”
Amy Winehouse wanted to be herself: singing was a part of her life, the beginning and the end. She didn't just want to sip her life, she wanted to bite into it and gulp it down with all that comes with it. Self-destructive? Certainly. Real and alive? Undoubtedly. Marisa Gabrielle Abela bring one with you enormous responsibility: let us see a giant on the big screen, a very powerful girl, very talented but at the same time fragile and naive. And she does it incredibly well.
The credit for all this undoubtedly goes to the director's hand Sam Taylor-Johnsoncapable of grasping the essence of this person, because it should never be forgotten that it is a person and not a “character”, made up of many facets, most of the time in conflict with each other but moreover, Amy was “her hometown daughter”Meaning what Camden Town which, whoever has been there or had the pleasure of living there, knows perfectly well how anachronistic and contradictory it can be.
True, true and vivid, this is how this portrait appears in life, although, as we know, Amy Winehouse is found dead at the age of 27, for ethyl alcohol intoxication after a long period of abstinence. Amy was a diamond: hard like few others, shining beyond words and yet, fragile, with a breaking point capable of making it crumble and descend into total darkness, made of drugs, alcohol and self-harm. A downward and self-sabotaging spiral that was able to reveal the fragility of that giant we see on the stage, but who with the lights off was none other than a girl like many others, with her fears and vices, dreams and desires to be realized.
A caress with your nails
Back to Black it's not a perfect movie: it is a gesture of kindness, a caress made by a mother's handof a sister, of a grandmother, or of a girlfriend who he absentmindedly scratches you with those slightly too long nails. It is the paraphrase of a true artist, beautiful and damned, gifted with an angelic voice and equally demonic when the stage spotlights went out.
Amy is not one Spice Girl and she is keen to point it out every three times: she is a fire that burns intensely, she is everything you would like to be but don't have the courage to do because, deep down, perhaps it is more comfortable to conform than to live truly following what you feel inside. Good things have happened in her life, just as many bad ones, but perhaps the worst thing that has happened to Amy is Amy herself: one cannot blame a person's frailties on themselves, it's clear, but we can understand that he was desperately trying to get out of the pain that he tried with drugs, alcohol and self-inflicted wounds.
Amy he was desperately asking for helpyet when help was given to her, she refused it with strength and determination, perhaps that's exactly why she was the shining star of London, albeit for a little whilebut intense Like never before. The film doesn't rise to the level of Rocketmanbut it is undoubtedly vivid, one of those films you wish were shown in schools, one of those stories worth remembering.
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