Amy Winehouse

The film titled "Amy" that portrays the important years of of Amy Winehouse's life following her death offers a very specific narrative that positions the audience to think in a specific way. The film is a documentary and is comprised of mostly raw footage taken from many events of Amy Winehouse's life, ranging from both the media exposure of her music, but also personal looks into certain stages of her life, this way the film manages to give the audience two different perspectives, one of what the mass media will see in the form of news coverage and recordings of her concerts, but also accounts of events that happened to her outside of the stage, this allows the audience to see the reality of how Amy is presented on both sides, in the Media and news coverage we see little respect for her being described as a "Mad Person" and additionally little respect for her personal life, when we see elements of her personal life in the form of both interviews from people that knew Amy Winehouse and a few film recordings, it offers a personal look into her life that respects her emotional and personal sate, for example one interview with one of Amy Winehouse's friends showed that during the time Amy Winehouse tried to stay clean, she found everything "boring" without drugs. The people that talk about Amy Winehouse are mostly her friends family, bodyguard, and even Doctor, mostly people that knew her personally and would naturally say some positive things about her, this could be seen as a bias on the film's part as it may have wanted to only show accounts of Amy Winehouse that were positive and sympathetic, as they obviously wanted you to feel sad during the end of the film at the moment of her death, possibly to mimic what her friends and family felt at the end. However this is not completely true as the film as the film also uses a few accounts of other people that may have had different views about Amy, such as her divorced husband Blake.

The film positions Blake as an "antagonist" which is clear when you see that he doesn't get many personal accounts. The main elements that Blake is used for is to show the reason for Winehouse's drug addiction, and even suggests that Blake only stayed with Winehouse because she was successful, the film shows little connection between the then couple for most of the film, which attributes to this, additionally they use a clip from an interview where even he questions why he is married to her, before their divorce.

 The documentary about Winehouse's life is able to successfully position its audience in such a way that makes you feel as if you learned something about Winehouse that the typical Media did not tell you about.