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It's the End of the World

27/4/2016

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Sometimes I like to imagine that it is the end of the world. I know that that sounds really fucked up, but it's not like I'm thinking about it because I want it to happen, I just like to imagine what I would do if I knew that the end was nigh. Believe it or not, I firmly feel that this type of cataclysmic thinking is actually quite good for putting things into perspective, because when you really whittle things down to their most finite reality, it's amazing the clarity that can be gleaned from it. 
For example, let's just say that some worldwide apocalyptic event was about to occur, something swift, close and something that no-one had any control over - it's the end of the world and it's completely unstoppable. What would you chose to do with your final hours? Who would you chose to spend your final moments with? Would you run around like a lunatic freaking out or would you just accept the hand that fate has dealt you and go out peacefully? Would you loot and pillage your final moments away like some crazed viking raider or would you just chill with your friends and family? 
For me it is the latter, but I am pretty sure that thousands would decide to go all 'opportunist' seizing a final moment of 'whatever goes' and attempting to go out in a blaze of glory. I think that what you would prefer to be doing in those last moments, really puts your real life into perspective. It places your true values and genuine nature into perspective, and makes it very easy to see what you have been living for up to this point.
It is the people that have nothing to lose that will always become the most dangerous, it is the people that haven't accepted their own mortality that will always struggle the most and it is the people that realize that this is all just fleeting and that nothing is forever that will go peacefully. Personally, I like to imagine that my final hours will be spent with my loved ones, sharing a last good meal and a few drinks, holding onto each other and reminiscing about all of the wonderful things that we have been so lucky to have had together. Because when it all boils down, all we really have is each other, everything else is just filler and fluff, it's meaningless - it's just a way to pass the time. 
​It's the moments, the memories, the relationships that we have forged over our blood, sweat and tears that are going to take centre stage for most of us in those final hours. And this is why it is so cathartic to imagine that it is the end of the world, because those amazing relationships shouldn't have to wait for it to be the end of the world for your nearest and dearest to take centre stage. They should be the most important things every damn day and if they aren't, well, you're doing it wrong. I say, make the most of every single minute, every single moment that you can and never ever miss the chance to let someone you love know how much they mean to you.
The end of the world may never happen, but your place in it will end one day, that much is certain, so don't fill your life and time with too much fluff and crap, focus on your meaningful relationships and just take it one beautiful day at a time. Yeah, I said beautiful day, because when you think that you may not have many of them left they all seem pretty beautiful don't they? 
So put on a smile and enjoy yourself, after all, it's not like it's the end of the world or anything!
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THESE FINAL HOURS
Release Date: 2013
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 87 mins 

An apocalyptic movie, filmed in Perth, Western Australia and directed by Zac Hilditch. These Final Hours is further proof that Australian's are producing high quality thrillers that are just as good as the overseas competition, and far more relatable to local audiences.
It is the final day on earth for Australians, much of the world has already been decimated by a cataclysmic event and in a few short hours it will reach the coast line of  Australia. With only hours to live, James (Nathan Phillips) makes his way across the lawless and chaotic city streets of Perth to the party to end all parties, seeking oblivion from the impending doom. However, along the way he reluctantly saves the life of a young girl named Rose (Angourie Rice). James' strange new relationship with Rose forces him to address what really matters in his life as the time ticks away.  
Nathan Phillips and Angourie Rice are excellent, their characters are well delivered and their reactions to the events that occur around them are portrayed with conviction and realism. I was really touched by this movie, I liked that there was personal revelation hidden amidst the cesspool  of humanity's final hours, and I was gripped by the powerful knowledge that everything was going to end for everyone. 
FINAL SAY: I never did believe in God....
3.5 Chili Peppers

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Retreat

25/4/2016

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The staff retreat turned out to be a lovely and cathartic experience, loads of time to reflect and meditate, I actually found the entire thing quite zen and appreciated the opportunity to escape the daily grind. I have been noticing that I am on a bit of spiritual retreat in general at the moment. I find that I become quite easily overwhelmed in social situations lately, and have been suffering from a type of syndrome that I like to call "fish out of water." 
This does happen to me from time to time, I feel the need to be alone and find being around people virtually intolerable. This can come off badly, so it is always best for me to just retreat and seek some alone time. When I am in these types of modes, I find myself extremely intolerant to the plight of others, their complaints appear whiny and mostly self indulgent to me, so I can be curt and extremely insensitive without meaning to be. I also find that small talk has the effect of nails on a chalkboard when I get like this and I generally find myself tuning out and seeking the nearest exit. In short, I am not good to be around, and I am old enough to recognize the need for retreat in my own self now, so I know that there is no point in making myself do anything social until the moment passes. 
Perhaps it is the plight of all introverts to feel like this, but to be honest I find these feelings of anti-socialism perplexing and uncomfortable myself, is it normal to not to want to be around anyone for long periods? A week with no phone, no visitors and no human interaction with anyone apart from my immediate family sounds like heaven to me right now, is it wrong to feel this way? I do feel guilty when I get in one of these moods, but there is honestly nothing that I can do to stop it from happening, it just comes out of nowhere and if I don't heed the call to retreat I continue to get worse and worse and I just become a complete and utter bitch. Perhaps it has nothing to do with being an introvert and everything to do with being slightly unhinged, but it is what it is, and I can do nothing about it but surrender, own it and retreat to a quiet corner until I come good again... which I know I will do....eventually. 
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RUN LOLA RUN
Release Date: 1998
Rating: R 18+
Running Time: 80 mins 
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, this German thriller is a visually and conceptually impressive body of work.  Run Lola Run won an enormous array of awards upon its release including the Sundance Film Festival World Movie Award, mostly due to its unique story line and interesting film-making qualities. 
Lola (Franka Potente) receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni, he has misplaced a bag carrying $100,000 dollars on a train that belongs to a gangster. Manni must recover the money by noon, which has been picked up by a homeless man, or else he will be killed. This only leaves Lola 20 short minutes to save her boyfriend. 
The movie plays out like a choose your own adventure story, Lola relives her 20 minute ordeal three times, each time making different choices that lead her to different outcomes. This is clever and very cool film making, the movie darts around using different techniques including animation, black and white, slow and fast motion and amazing stills. The soundtrack  is dynamic and for only 80 minutes running time, there is a lot packed in here, making it a tight and tense watch. 
FINAL SAY: But in the end, isn't it always the same question? And always the same answer? 
4 Chili Peppers

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Routine Driven

20/4/2016

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I have to go away tomorrow for a staff event and training session, this event - or 'retreat' as work likes to call it,  only happens once every two years but requires the logistical co-ordination of a well planned army attack from my end in order for me to go. It is times like this that I realise that my life has so much predictability and routine that I can literally give Craig a blow by blow detailed list of what he needs to do in my absence to ensure that everything continues to run like clock work in my absence. 
Considering that he only needs to organise one child, a rather senile old cat and an overweight guinea pig in my absence, which I know that he is more than capable of doing, I still feel obliged to leave him a list as long as my arm.
In the mornings, Craig generally only has to concern himself with himself, and no-one else, which is really fair enough when you consider that he is generally already gone when I rise at 6am. He doesn't need to think about things like school drop offs, uniforms and lunch boxes, he doesn't need to ask "have you brushed your teeth yet?" fourteen times in half an hour or wonder whether the cat has any water in her bowl, I do all of that stuff because my starting time is much later than his. 
Now I don't want to say that he is clueless, because he is certainly not, but the devil is in the details and he is not great at remembering all of the little things that need to occur to ensure that it is smooth sailing. Sending Seth to school with unbrushed teeth is hardly the end of the world, but no lunch and a pissed off incontinent cat can be mighty inconvenient. 
I know that I should just relinquish all control and let him do whatever, but the thought of coming home to a shit-storm after retreat doesn't exactly spin my tyres, so nah, he's getting a list whether he wants one or not! 
God I look forward to not being such a routine driven slag in my old age, what adventures I will have when I am no longer a slave to obligation and the clock, makes me think of a movie that I saw recently. 
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THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
Release Date: 2013
Rating: M
Running Time: 114 mins 

Based on the novel of the same name by Jonas Jonasson and directed by Felix Herngren, this Swedish comedy became the third highest grossing Swedish film of all time and was nominated for a Best Make-Up and Hair-styling Award at the 88th Academy Awards. 
100 year old Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) is tired of his life at the retirement home, so he simply climbs out the window and embarks on a most unexpected journey. As Allan's adventures progress, we are given a detailed recollection of his long and colourful life through a series of flashbacks.
This is an extremely fun and entertaining watch, Allan's indifference to the intense things that are happening around him is quite hysterical. In a Forrest Gump like fashion, his life experiences are interesting, historically significant and absolutely extraordinary. It's a seriously wacky ride from start to end, have fun with it. 
FINAL SAY: If you want to kill me, you'd better hurry, because I'm 100 years old. 
3.5 Chili Peppers

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Scared Shitless

18/4/2016

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Remember when you were a kid and you watched the first horror movie that scared you shitless? Last night Seth watched a horror-comedy with Craig and I, yes, I said horror- comedy, and it was rated M, not MA or R, which he is usually okay with. It was called The Final Girls and was a spoof of the 80's slasher/horror genre. It had the formula down to the letter, a dude in a mask (hand carved Tiki mask mind you- remember this was a comedy) toting a machete, a bunch of horny teens, a cabin in the woods and a killer that only wants to slay people that are going to have sex, or that show their boobs. Boom, every 80's slasher in a nut shell right there. 
Well it turns out that even the comedy, which by the way was highly entertaining, wasn't enough to get the concept of a lunatic with a penchant for killing out of Seth's head and it totally freaked him out. I would imagine that living out here in the pines was part of the problem to be honest, because his bedroom looks out onto the pines behind our house, so that's not terribly comforting when you have already allowed your over-active imagine to conjure up some psycho lurking in the bushes with a sharp implement and murderous intent. I think that he finally succumbed to sleep around 2am, poor bugger, he looks pretty ruined today. I seriously over-estimated his tolerance on that one, bad parenting on my part there, may need to knock it back to PG for a while again I think. 
I recall the first horror that had me crapping my dacks back in the day. It was some werewolf movie, I can't even recall the name of it, and this dad got attacked by a werewolf and then turned into a werewolf himself on the next full moon. Then he went on a rampage, slaughtered his family, and chased his son who was around ten years old relentlessly through the forest for most of the movie. It absolutely freaked me out, I think I was about 11 when I saw it and I could not sleep that night at all. The image of that werewolf with a bloodied up mouth was burned into my mind and was not going to let me rest, it was awful, and I recall torturing my parents with my scared shitless antics all night long too. 
In my early teens, every slumber party in town was all about horror movies. Kids were just dying to watch Nightmare on Elm Street, well before they could handle the content  mind you. I know for a fact that old Freddy Kruger was responsible for a lot of sleepless slumber parties back in the day, but oddly enough, that film never freaked me out at all. I was around 14 or 15 when I do remember seeing a movie that did have me holding a pillow up to my face again, for the first time in a while. It was the first graphic R rated horror that I had ever encountered and even though I have re-watched it a couple of times since then, it still does have some creepy-arse gross shit going on, even by today standards. It's a horror classic for sure, but it's still definitely not for those with a weak constitution, those Cenobites are some freaky demons for sure. 
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HELLRAISER 
Release Date: 1987
Rating: R 18+
Running Time: 94 mins 
Based on the short novel The Hellbound Heart  by Clive Barker, this is a no holds barred horror that covers many facets of depravity and darkness with its sadomasochistic portrayal of the underworld. 
Frank has an S & M fetish that knows no bounds, however he finally meets his match when a mysterious puzzle box unlocks a doorway to hell and releases the blood and pain lusting demons within called Cenobites. The Cenobites literally rip Frank to bits, however he manages to begin to re-manifest from a drop of blood. Frank's former mistress Julia agrees to try and help Frank regenerate, but it comes at a cost and the Cenobites don't like to let go of their victims. 
A series of Hellraiser movies followed this first instalment, but none of them could compare to this initial meeting of Pinhead and his demented demon cronies; it's a must see movie for serious horror fans. 
FINAL SAY: That's not a Rubik's cube! 
3 Chili Peppers

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Stupid Tough Love

13/4/2016

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Went to Geelong on the holidays to stay with Zoe and Lachlainn for a couple of days. Staying over at your kid's place is one of the weirdest things that you will ever do as a parent. For me it was made even weirder by the shattering and somewhat compounding reality that Zoe has left our home for good now, that she is certainly not a 'kid' in any way, shape or form anymore and that she doesn't need me as much as she used to. Ouch....it hurts. 
There is no doubt that she will always be my baby, but after observing her in an environment that she has eked out and shaped for herself, I was ever so slightly unnerved. It is difficult to know whether to puff out your chest that you have done such an awesome job of parenting that your child can claim their independence easily, or whether to feel utterly miserable that they can manage so well without you.
To be honest, I'm still not 100% settled with her absence from our everyday lives. Sure we get together at least once a fortnight for a good catch up, but I know that those visits will get fewer and further apart as time goes by, because these things just happen. Also, not having my number one confident around to vent to all of the time does have its challenges. I am finding that the most hideously selfish parts of myself are the parts that are struggling the most to let go of her completely. 
On the positive side, I now have somewhere to go anytime that I want to escape, a place to go where I know that I will always be welcomed and a place to rest my head after long contemplative strolls along the beach, and that is a very good thing indeed; but it will never be a substitute for having her around everyday. 
I have never been good at letting the things that I love dearly in this world leave me, and I doubt that I will ever really get over my daughter leaving home, but at least I can glean some comfort in the knowledge that she is doing just fine without me, no matter how much that reality cuts me to the bone.
Curses on my 'independence/ tough-love' parenting techniques, what a fool I have been! If only I had made her utterly hopeless and scared of the world I would still have her right now! Ahhh yes, spoken like a true wicked witch, see I told you the selfish parts of me were going to ugly places. Oh well, never mind, I've blown it really, because it is far too late to put her in a tower and hide her away from the world now I suppose, but I'd be lying if I said that the thought hasn't crossed my mind. 
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CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE
Release Date: 2011
Rating: M
Running Time: 118 mins 
Cal Weaver's (Steve Carell) life is thrown into turmoil when he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him and she wants to divorce him. Suddenly alone, and lonely - the hopeless forty-something attempts the dating scene without much luck, and then he meets Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Jacob is a handsome player, that is willing to teach Cal everything about the art of picking of women. 
I'm not sure if it was Carell's comedy or Gosling's 'photoshopped' good looks that won me over, but I really enjoyed this light hearted rom-com; and even though it is clearly covering some unpleasant ground in regards to infidelity and ladykillers, it never feels nasty or ugly. 
The cast is stellar, with fantastic support roles filled by Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei, all of whom deliver well and make this an amusing, and at times, touching comedy about looking for love. 
FINAL SAY: I'm wildly unhappy, and I'm trying to buy it, and it's not working. 
3.5 Chili Peppers

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Sonder

11/4/2016

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I have become a bit obsessed with The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. It is a deeply ponderous web series that defines newly invented words for strangely powerful emotions. New episodes are published every week on YouTube, and I just can't stop watching them. If you haven't seen these short and beautiful clips yet, you should, they are visually pleasing and are also great for extending your vocabulary.
I stumbled upon these clips when I was looking up the meaning of the word sonder, it was in a poem that I had read and I wasn't familiar with it. By definition it means - 
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Turns out that even though I had never used the word before, I had certainly been sonder many, many times, but it was John Koenig's clip that really brought it home for me. 
I can recall spending a lot of time as a child looking at other people's faces as they passed by in other cars on the highway or walked passed a window that I was looking out of and wondering about what they were thinking about, or where they might be going or how they liked to spend their free time. It would be fair to say that I have always been fascinated by the lives of others.
Seth and I have a game that we like to play when we are sitting at a cafe or anywhere that we can observe passers by. My sister introduced this game to us years ago, and it has become a bit a guilty obsession that we regularly like to indulge in. We choose a random person off the street and try to determine what it is that they do for a living, and also what they do for a hobby or when no-one else is looking. We base our assumptions on the way they look, how they dress, objects they may have on their person and their body language.
This is a great game to play with kids, highly imaginative and fantastic for oral language and observational skills, and as long as your child hasn't got a foghorn of a voice when they are making their observations it can be a lot of hilarious fun. Seth has been virtually rolling on the ground with laughter about some of our observations, like the burly bricklayer we spotted that we decided had unfulfilled desires to dance in the ballet and goes home every evening to pull his hair into a neat bun, put on a tutu and some opera music, before pirouetting around his lounge room for hours on end, or the lady that vacuums at Big W who is really just using that as a cover for her real job as a Colombian drug-lord and is secretly addicted to chocolate royal biscuits. 
It is a fascinating exercise, pondering the lives of others, but also understanding that we are all wired so uniquely and that we all have a tale of our own to tell that is marvelously intricate and deeply profound. Now that's sonder thinking if ever there was, I'm adding that newly created word to my vocab, I like it a lot. 
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BEING JOHN MALKOVICH 
Release Date: 1999
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 112 mins 
Director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman hit a sweet and extremely quirky note with Being John Malkovich. This is a movie for anyone that has wanted to experience what it would be like to be in someone else's shoes, or in this case - their mind. 
Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) discovers a portal behind a filing cabinet at work that leads to the mind of John Malkovich. Craig finds that he can observe and sense everything that Malkovich is doing, for only a short period before he is ejected and dropped into a ditch near a New Jersey turnpike. Hoping that he can win the attractions of his co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener) he shares the portal, which proves to be a big mistake when lots of other people begin to be John Malkovich and things rapidly go from odd to even weirder! 
The cast is fabulous in this, I am not a fan of Cameron Diaz, but even she was tolerable. Being John Malkovich is a seriously weird and surprising watch with loads or originality and utterly unpredictable outcomes, it's a worthy watch for sure. 
FINAL SAY: Meet you in Malkovich in one hour. 
3.5 Chili Peppers

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Drunken Lunches and Midnight Specials

6/4/2016

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I always seem to jam pack my holidays with busy things, which is fabulous because I get to spend time with a huge array of amazing people, but it does also mean that I generally find myself stalking around at all kinds of ungodly hours trying to sate my need for movies and TV series, of which I have an abundance of to watch and catch up on. 
It is nothing for me to be starting a film at midnight when I know that I don't have to succumb to the 6am alarm clock, which does take it's toll after a couple of weeks when I am running around like a mad thing during the daylight hours as well. Don't get me wrong, I am most certainly not complaining in any way here, I actually love this lifestyle and could adopt these days of long drunken lunches and midnight specials as a way of life permanently; if only I could find a profession that would accommodate that perpetually. 
Had a couple of friends out to Enfield today, one of whom cooked some kick arse gnocchi that she made from scratch (god bless her soul) and the other supplied a delicious gluten free apple crumble which topped off the afternoon perfectly - seriously what more could a girl ask for? Good friends that are willing to make and bring their own food, good wine (which I managed to drink too much of - can you tell?), a full night of viewing ahead of me and still another fours days away from work, seriously, life just doesn't get any better than this.
It is the sweet sweet days like these, that I realise that I have a mighty fine life, and even if it's just for a couple of weeks at a time, I get to live a life that I would love to have every damn day - and those small glimpses are enough to get me through all of the other shitty days and to keep me smiling - oh hang on, I'm rambling now....that may be all of the wine that I had over lunch talking now..... oh well, never mind, I'm gonna enjoy the fuzzy feel goods for now while they last....tomorrow I may feel differently. 
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THE HANGOVER
Release Date: 2009
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 100 mins 
Before they started pumping out unfunny sequels, this first installment of The Hangover was breaking new ground with it's sharply funny and often disturbing depiction of the morning after a bucks night in Vegas. 
With only two days until his wedding, Doug and three friends head to Las Vegas for his stag party. But when the they wake up the follow morning minus the groom and only a hazy recollection of what happened, they must quickly retrace their steps to discover the truth about their wild evening and try to recover Doug in time for the wedding. 
Actors like Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis were launched into bigger things after the massive success of The Hangover, but my favourite character was Ken Jeong's 'Mr Chow' whose outlandish behaviours and conscience free attitude had me laughing my head off. 
This is not a dazzling script by any means, but as the events unfold and the search for Doug goes from rather odd to straight up crazy, it really is a fun watch with a lot of laughs. 
FINAL SAY: It's funny because he's fat!
4 Chili Peppers

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Mountain Climbing and Marilyn Monroe

3/4/2016

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Had a lovely Chinese lunch with the folks and then took Seth to the Grampians because he really wanted to climb The Pinnacle. I have done the climb a few times already, but it had been years since I'd attempted the climb all the way to the summit, so I knew that I was in for a challenge before we even arrived. Did we complete the climb? Of course we bloody well did. Did I find it difficult? Of course I bloody well did! I can't remember the last time that I voluntarily hiked for 4 straight hours, most of which was on an incline and on dodgy rocky surfaces, so yeah, it is fair to say that it was a challenge, but we did it! We even took a selfie of ourselves to prove to the world that we did do it, mostly because I figured that no-one would believe that I had actually done it if I didn't have photographic evidence to prove that it really had happened. 
​Anyway, when I woke up the next morning, my body was telling me no - 'no, don't do that again in a hurry' it screamed from every crevice of my flabby body. How the hell did my back, chest and shoulders get so sore anyway? It's not like I slithered up on my gut like snake or anything, but for some reason the strangest parts of me ached. Totally weird to be honest, but I was obviously using my upper body more than I realised I was, and I am 100% sure that when I did the climb about a decade ago that I wasn't sore in any of those places the next day, proving again that my body is rapidly turning to shit around me.  
However, there was no time to sook it up, because I was out and hitting the road again, this time I was off to Bendigo to spend the weekend with Helen. We went to see the new Marilyn Monroe exhibition that is currently on at The Bendigo Art Gallery, and I have to say that although I was never a huge Marilyn fan, I was thoroughly impressed by the exhibition. A huge array of personal items, clothing, images and information is on display, which really helped me to understand who Marilyn Monroe was, not just as an icon, but also as a person. I swear that she was utterly incapable of taking a bad photograph, and considering she was around in the days before Photoshop, she looks bloody incredible in every single shot. She truly was gobsmackingly gorgeous, and I can certainly see why men tripped over their own tongues and went gaga in her presence, because there is no denying it, she was insanely hot and her look is the epitome of timeless beauty. The exhibit is worth going to just to see her incredible wardrobe alone, what style! 
There was a photo that was on display that was apparently Marilyn's favourite photograph of herself, and after having a good look at it, it actually made me feel really sad. There is clearly a deep sadness in her eyes and some unspoken sorrow in her expression that cannot be missed; how telling that she favoured that photo of herself the most. Like so many other icons that went before and after her time, she too was drowning right in front of the entire world. Seen on every billboard and plastered in the public's eye, and yet so very lost and secretly damaged. Marilyn's short life and legacy is a tragic tale for sure, and one that we keep on seeing time and time again. Unfortunately, we keep witnessing these incredibly talented and influential people succumb to the pressures that the limelight thrusts upon them, and it is truly an awfully sad thing to witness. 
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AMY
Release Date: 2015
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 122 mins 

A British documentary outlining the life and death of iconic singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. Thoughtfully directed by Asif Kapadia, Amy is a collection of interviews with people that were intimately involved with her, private photographs and previously unseen archival film footage, played in chronological order to give us a detailed portrait of who Amy Winehouse really was.
Despite her incredible talent and the commercial success of her two albums Frank and Back to Black, Amy was a troubled and tortured person, plagued with bad relationships, mental health issues, bulimia and drug and alcohol addiction. Buckling under the pressure of the media, her personal demons and also succumbing to her many addictions, Amy's life sadly ended in 2011 when she died of alcohol poisoning at the tender age of 27. 
This is a really sad documentary, it seemed clear from the beginning that Amy was never cut out for the big time, and lacked the emotional support that she so dearly needed in her life. Her role models and infatuations always appeared to be for people that lacked any sort of moral compass, and she appears to be the gravy boat that seemed to keep everyone else afloat whilst she sunk further and further down into the mire of her addictions. This movie left me feeling a bit depressed that someone could be at the front of so much media hype, and yet still be completely invisible in so many ways. Not a heartwarming story in any way, shape or form. 
FINAL SAY: I do suffer from depression I suppose. Which isn't that unusual, a lot of people do. 
4 Chili Peppers

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