Back To Black Review

Kicking off my birthday week, me and my mom went to see the film Back To Black. As you can obviously tell by the name of the film, this is a biopic on the British singer Amy Winehouse, her rise to fame leading all the way up to her death.

While the movie wasn't terrible, it was rather anticlimactic. Me and my mom both felt the way it end kind of sucked, as if the writers got bored and just decided to end it. They could've at least shown a news report of her death, a montage of her, or at least her dad's reaction. But they just ended it, just like that. There was also a little bit of overacting on the lead actress's part, particularly during the music sequences.

On the positive, the music featured in the movie (not just Winehouse's) I actually enjoyed. I felt like it was relatively versatile, which is surprising for me. I feel like this movie made me understand Winehouse a lot more. As someone who was never really a fan of Winehouse and thought she was one of those artists who was just difficult for no reason, the movie made me understand that she really didn't know any other way to deal with heartbreak aside from drugs and drinking, which is sad. I also really liked her relationship with her grandmother, and her dad tried. He made some mistakes but he tried.

Considering this movie was directed by the same person who directed the Fifty Shades trilogy, I'm not really that surprised the movie turned out to be lackluster. This is not a good year for biopics. Thanks for reading.

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