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Back to Black 

                 This movie stars Marisa Abela as the female singer Amy Winehouse, Eddie Marsan as the father of the now today dearly missing Amy Winehouse and Jack O'Connell as the boyfriend and husband that most impacted Amy’s life and singing career. The direction of this movie was carried out by Sam TaylorJohnson meanwhile Matt Greenhalgh was its script writer. 

                    Back to Black begins with a London jazz amused eighteen-year-old girl who yet had never sung to wide audiences in her life back then, but only to her family. Things kick off when Amy gets then friendly occasionally on singing to a pub’s owner, her brother and some loyal jazz fans from the very pub. She had had no idea that pub’s owner went into contact with a musical recording music label company, because that changed everything. Not long after that, she under record to the radio, singed a bombshell that delighted Londoners on putting her on the top ten of that very same song launching week. All this, with her talented voice and irreverent lyrics towards the “on bed weak male sexual attributions of her then boyfriend - that she labelled as a like gay boyfriend of hers”. He broke up with her after he had listened to that song of hers in the radio rs. She goes on anyway with her criticism on “fragile” male attitudes onto the relationships she had been going through until she got to meet a different man. This man (played by Jack O'Connell) was very onto be acceptable to this irreverent criticism and was very deep into a female band that were somehow connected to the very Amy’s poetry connection. As soon as she got to realize that love, it happens that the feeling comes inevitably crashing down from her to him, even as engaged as he had already been so far, for her intense passion broke him away from his previous then girlfriend. 

                     All in all, Amy’s life turns it self into a hurricane of intense emotions of ups and downs, followed then much more than ever, by the addictions of both of them spicing up far more her complications to deal with alcohol, alongside with lost, fame, mistrust and misunderstandings. For the two of them had been in prior dealing with their own deep addiction troubles until they fell for each other, they just had been ignoring the signs and effects. 

                    For the complete effects of this passing hurricane across the saga the two of them, and then on the family’s saga of Amy, this movie mustn’t stand hidden from the notion of an audience that must feel so connected to the music and to the real-life drama in general. The role played by Marisa Abela as Amy fulfill in great promises what it has been supposed to be delivered regarding the emotional transitions so hard felt by our eternal singer. Especially when it needed it all to summon so much intense crying, deep choreographed singing, attention to the behaviours and acts of Amy at her most critical and transitional moments of suffering and joys meanwhile suffering addiction and, not for the last, many good connections to deal with all these transitions with her co-actor Jack O'Connell. And as such, as the movie is very well centred in this couple, for a very good reason in Amy’s life and her compositions, the direction job of Sam Taylor-Johnson had to be very well aligning with the different ongoing anguishes that were sat on the singer. And this in order to make the responses and reactions of her boyfriend (and then husband) the much convincing and delicately connected to the aspirations and demises stricken onto Amy’s fragile and tortured mind. The script goes along in a very linear story that does not want to get missing her living pivotal turbulences lightened up towards her most intrinsic deal moments with fame, and passion and depression until her first got grammy when she just had got out of rehab. 

                    It doesn’t mean that the story telling of our eternal singer is incomplete, it is told so anyway, but not to be expected as a so much dramatic finale. The drama of her final moments going there and back again in rehab, while falling back again into some devious and gruesome alcoholism in an even more shockingly presenting ways than that of what the storyline of this movie has gone and presented, could be shot in a continuation film. So, this time, in some much deeper emotional focused oriented dialogues and conversations back and forth between Amy Winehouse, her father Mitch (played by Eddie Marsan), and her mother and her brother. Much could be done in this “Back to Black: Part II” with the same worked here explained guidelines, used by this movie director and script writer. The cast to be included for the roles of Amy and her father and brother should be, in my view, the same used in this movie so here described and analysed. 

For the movie Back to Black, I give it the score of 70 out of 100.

This movie analysis has been writen by GUSTAV MENDES VERAS (English Teacher at Wise Up/Number One), the grandon of Maria Vilma Muniz Veras.