Touches You

Admirable film.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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.

It's a very good documentary, it really shows how Amy went through her life. It's also a little bit hard to watch her perform on a stage when you know what she have been through. After watching this I realized what her songs a really about, and it also surprised me that she survived so long on drugs and alcohol.

In this documentary, we follow Amy Winehouse through her journey towards becoming a highly admired and world known artist. We get a look inside her mind, and an insight in how she felt and acted when she was alone or with friends, with no cameras rolling. We see how her music was her savior, but also her destruction. She wasn't meant for a life like a celebrity, and a dangerous combination of her becoming so, and getting into a very stormy relationship ended up with her dead by a heart attack caused by a serious abuse of alcohol and drugs.I find that this documentary is heartbreaking and dark, but in a good way. It truly describes Amy's life for better or for worse. I have never been a big fan of Amy, and the only thing I ever remember hearing about her was from my mom when I was little. She was quite upset on the day of her death, and wouldn't stop talking about what a shame it was. Back then I didn't really put a lot of thought into it, but while watching this movie I truly understood how sad a story it actually is. She sure had an outstanding talent, but she was just never meant to be famous. She struggled a lot with her mind, and yet her managers - and even her own dad - kept her in the spotlight at all times. In the beginning her music was her savior when she went through a rough time. It helped her get over heartbreaks, and process her thoughts and feelings. And what a shame it is that something that beautiful and peaceful must be consumed by fame, paparazzi's and the media. I must admit that with the pressure she was under twenty-four-seven it doesn't surprise me that she reached a point where she couldn't take it anymore. She was a fragile and misunderstood human, but the surrounding world didn't take this into consideration. What makes this documentary so outstanding and probably one of the best I have seen is, that it hasn't been made to entertain. It has been made to tell a story, and because it is so raw, it gets truly sincere. It's an honorable attempt at showing her meaningful lyrics, and great successes, but at the same time the self-harming and declines from where it all first started.

Amy was the real deal. And so is this doc. Friends, family and colleagues are interviewed, they aren't shown talking at all and it works. There is no narration, but her lyrics tell the story of her rise and heartbreaking fall. Her knockout voice and songs were the key and her lyrics makes you realize they always were. Watching her fall apart on screen is like a train wreck. As she becomes richer and richer and more and more famous, it becomes comes clear that she wasn't equipped to cope and that was where her fall begins. The doc moves from cell phone footage and TV performance to the paparazzi mobs and it becomes clear Amy was cursed with an array of dysfunctional behaviors that would com-bust into self-destructionYou'll pretty much want to watch more of Amy nonstop. There's no spoiler alert needed here because we all know how this one ends, and losing her again made it all the more hard to watch, but the doc ends on a high note, with her duet with her idol Tony Bennett. What a waste.