{"id":9883,"date":"2015-07-15T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2015-07-15T09:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:44:26","slug":"love-is-a-losing-game-i-review-an-amy-winehouse-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/07\/love-is-a-losing-game-i-review-an-amy-winehouse-documentary.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Love Is a Losing Game&#8221;: I review an Amy Winehouse documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for AmCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s impossible to describe Amy Winehouse\u2019s voice. Crackly, crimson, fractured and sultry: That\u2019s just the scratchy surface. \u201cAmy,\u201d the new documentary from director Asif Kapadia, delves into the jazz chanteuse\u2019s troubled life and early death, but never forgets to show us Winehouse\u2019s talent and craft\u2014and her gentleness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmy\u201d plays like a defense brief. There are villains: Winehouse\u2019s father Mitchell, her husband Blake, and the paparazzi. The movie takes Winehouse\u2019s own narrative at face value, and it\u2019s a starkly old-fashioned one: <em>When my father left our family I lost my compass.<\/em> <em>I need someone to stop me from hurting myself. I need my daddy.<\/em> Winehouse\u2019s first big hit had her upbraiding her man with, \u201cYou should be stronger than me!\u201d, and that search for a man to be her strength continues throughout the version of her life we see here. If this movie were a slogan it would be, \u201cA woman needs a man like a fish needs water.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/love-is-a-losing-game\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for AmCon: It\u2019s impossible to describe Amy Winehouse\u2019s voice. Crackly, crimson, fractured and sultry: That\u2019s just the scratchy surface. \u201cAmy,\u201d the new documentary from director Asif Kapadia, delves into the jazz chanteuse\u2019s troubled life and early death, but never forgets to show us Winehouse\u2019s talent and craft\u2014and her gentleness. \u201cAmy\u201d plays like a defense brief. 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