Saw this last week while also simultaneously reading "Love and Addiction", by S. Peele and A. Brodsky and it really brought together what is discussed in that thread about addiction, be it addiction to someone else in a relationship, drugs, alcohol and eating disorders, as Amy Winehouse went through the whole gamut.
SEMI-SPOILERS!
I never really listened to her music all that much while alive, although I did often hear about her bouts with drugs and alcohol on the news, but it's a chilling look into the nature of addiction and how it played out throughout her life up until the very end. It highlights some of her past growing up, her relationships with her mother and father, and her self-destructive spiral into drug/alcohol use and enabling relationships that eventually led to her death.
In conjunction with reading the thread above, it really made me look deeper into what self-destructive behaviour actually looks like as it's played out throughout her life and how so many of the belief systems she developed, I can assume growing up, were expressed in the lyrics to her music. Granted, she was a very talented singer and songwriter, but she was also manipulative, emotionally underdeveloped and would sometimes revert back to a narcissistic-child phase, while also being surrounded by wolves who were feeding off her success and pushing her further off the edge.
It's a tragic but well-made documentary, but I also took it as a warning sign about how empty certain lifestyles and behaviours are.
SEMI-SPOILERS!
I never really listened to her music all that much while alive, although I did often hear about her bouts with drugs and alcohol on the news, but it's a chilling look into the nature of addiction and how it played out throughout her life up until the very end. It highlights some of her past growing up, her relationships with her mother and father, and her self-destructive spiral into drug/alcohol use and enabling relationships that eventually led to her death.
In conjunction with reading the thread above, it really made me look deeper into what self-destructive behaviour actually looks like as it's played out throughout her life and how so many of the belief systems she developed, I can assume growing up, were expressed in the lyrics to her music. Granted, she was a very talented singer and songwriter, but she was also manipulative, emotionally underdeveloped and would sometimes revert back to a narcissistic-child phase, while also being surrounded by wolves who were feeding off her success and pushing her further off the edge.
It's a tragic but well-made documentary, but I also took it as a warning sign about how empty certain lifestyles and behaviours are.
