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Like her music, the film about Billy Aylish also turns out to be something completely different
A photography team accompanied the pop star and her family for a period of 140 days around the world, including a rare glimpse into the process of creating her music.
The result is a very long film intended not only for fans - even random viewers will agree that her partner in the film is one of the greatest villains in the history of cinema
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Sunday, 28 February 2021, 15:31
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Trailer for the movie "Billy Aylish: The World Is A Little Fuzzy" (Apple TV Plus)
In her own words, Billy Aylish's US tour in 2019 was the most enjoyable of her career. When she said those words, she did not know it would also be her last tour, after a global epidemic stopped music all at once around the world for more than a year. At the end of one of the shows in New York, her team asked her to come to a meeting with industry executives. She was asked to smile and be photographed with older men in suits she did not know or knew what their role was. Rich girls who found themselves at the event pushed her smartphone forward and took unflattering selfies. She tried to run away, but was unsuccessful. Precisely the one who was supposed to take care of all this, her mother, pushed her back to the event. The next day she read a response on a social network accusing her of being antipathetic at the event. It broke her. The bank did not help the millions. And the millions of fans who adore her. At that moment she did not want to be the biggest star in the world, but a 17-year-old girl who wants her mother to protect her from strangers who want to take a piece from her and exploit her.
Age 17 is a fertile cushion for drama. Films of all genres dealt with the cinematic aspect of drama This one, from "Bad Girls," through "
Twilight "to" Curry ".
The general embarrassment of being a teenage girl in a judgmental and critical environment, the one who falls in love with the wrong boy, does not feel comfortable in her body and finally finds redemption in the talent she has had all along.
In that sense, the movie "The World Is A Little Fuzzy" is no different from other teen movies.
Another story about a good-looking American girl, in a white and blonde case, who dreams of passing a theory and a test and driving her own car.
For her 17th birthday she gets just that, a shiny new black Dodge shows up in her driveway.
In between we discover her full world.
She has strange hobbies like growing tarantulas in her bedroom, she has a complicated partner with violent tendencies who is five years older than her, she fights Tourette's syndrome and various symptoms of depression - which drains into her writing music.
It's just another harmless youth film, apart from the fact that it's a true story that ends with the girl becoming one of the most successful singers in the world.
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An intimate glimpse.
Billy Aylish and her mother on the home sofa (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
On the face of it, the documentary from Apple TV Tiwi Plus is supposed to be another work of art by the pop star herself, like Taylor Swift's "Miss Americana," but surprisingly, it's something completely different.
Director R. Cutler's minimalist photography team ("Bluesy," "Listen to Me Marlon") accompanied Billy Aylish and her family for a 140-day period.
Some of the time the cameras served as a fly on the wall in the family home, capturing the songwriting process, the joint work of Billy and her brother Phineas on the music, moments of anxiety and stress to meet the deadline and finally - releasing the debut album, recorded entirely in her bedroom.
The result, in retrospect, is historic: this is a record of the creation of the most successful album of 2019 out of nowhere.
From the lines written in Billy's diary (alongside illustrations of monsters and genitals), through the creative quarrels with the family to winning five Grammy Awards for the same songs.
In between, the cameras accompany the young star on tour around the United States, Europe and Oceania, with stunning footage of both the musical numbers and the small moments behind the scenes, before, after and sometimes during the performances. For example, the film documents Billy plucking her leg right at the opening A performance in Milan, descending from the stage in pain, where her mother is waiting for her with an orthopedic boot. She returns to the stage, tries to sing but discovers in front of the tens of thousands in the audience that her voice is choked with tears. She gets off the stage again, and gets a therapeutic session by her brother. Of Cutler manage to show the exact moment when Billy goes from being the biggest star in the world, to a 17-year-old girl who just wants to disappear into her mother's embrace - and her reincarnation into the superstar she is.
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Therapeutic session.
Billy Aylish and her brother Phineas on stage (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
The whole film is heavily influenced by Albert and David Meisels '"Give Me Shelter," the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour that ended in tragedy, and most notably the "Don't Look Back" documentary by Danny Fenbaker about Bob Dylan's tour. In England in 1965. Includes actual visual quotes of Billy driving through the streets of New York with the window open and talking to her fans, just as Dylan does on the streets of London.
The comparison to Stones or Dylan is not unfounded at this point, with the standard mark of the most balanced woman on Spotify in the world in 2020 (a year in which she has hardly released any new music).
This is not just the soaring popularity of her music.
Billy Aylish fans, even if most of them are still 13-17 years old, are connected to her on the most personal level.
Many testify that she "saved their lives" or "writes what they feel."
This is not a new matter.
Fans also said the same to the Beatles and Dylan in the Sixties, Morrissey in the Eighties and until recently Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga were in this class (in Israel, by the way, there was a fan cult similar to Daphne Dekel somewhere in the nineties, go understand).
In this sense, the film is also an opportunity for those who have not connected or been exposed to its music to understand the secret of the star's magic.
And frankly, there are almost no secrets in the film.
Billy and the family do not hide anything from the cameras.
The film literally takes us to Billy's bedroom, where her mother wakes her up to tell her she's nominated for six Grammy Awards, and like any 17 - year - old girl she just wants to go back to sleep.
Throughout the film we see Billy suffering from torturous seizures, making video calls with Justin Bieber and becoming a 12-year-old Gropy, meeting Orlando Bloom (whom she did not recognize) in a disturbing hug and also being exposed up close to her relationship crumbling before our eyes.
In a film full of layers, this is undoubtedly the cruelest in it.
It’s hard to remember the history of cinema hard in a more unbearable character than “Cue,” Billy’s partner, who takes the pure love of the 17-year-old sensitive girl and simply exploits her for his own needs without rewarding her in any way.
At this point no matter if you are a fan or not, you are standing by the side of the young genius.
140 days in which the cameras were part of the daily routine of Billy Aylish and her team (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
Billy Aylish fans will rejoice at every moment in the film, including from the small moments when she issues a driver’s license or receives a lecture from her father on the importance of careful driving on the road.
However, at 141 minutes in length, the film, which features nearly 20 full songs by the young singer, may be too long for the average viewer.
It will be interesting to go back to it in 20 years and see if Billy lived up to the expectations she set in the film, or became another pop star for a moment in the brutal entertainment industry of the 21st century.
In small
It is strange that in such a long film, almost two and a half hours, they did not find it appropriate to combine things that are important to Eilish's heart, such as her activism for animals and the environment, mobilization to exercise the right to vote in the US or even her positive addiction to the "Office" series. In all the episodes of the series, with all due respect to the cautious speech in the father's ways, it was better to take advantage of the long time given to the creators to add some color and depth to the main character.
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