The legacy of Amy Winehouse leaves an imprint that seems to grow deeper as the years go on. Recently released on July 3rd was her documentary, “Amy.” It’s an astonishing display of how someone can provide such an influential footprint in the music industry, and then have it end so tragically and so quickly.

Some may only know her from her catchy tune about not going to rehab or her unmistakable beehive of a hair-do. Others may have had a piece of themselves go when she did. As I type these words, I'm in London, her hometown. Being here and witnessing the city's reaction to the release of her documentary is telling of the influence she had on the city and its people. There’s no possible way you could walk through Camden - the area she ruled when she was alive - without finding her mural painted on the side of a building or her music being blasted in a pub or in a grungy music store that so perfectly reflected her style. In the trailer, family and friends speak of her being “utterly authentic” and “having such an emotional relationship with music,” so emotional that it ultimately destroyed her.

It’s easy to point out a common theme with the ones who rose quickly to fame and tragically departed with drug use. Their drug-infused deaths have the ability to cloud their accomplishments and irreplaceable talent they exhibited so well. Expectedly, the documentary comes with controversy. As some say (her own father, most notably) it’s a false interpretation of Amy’s life and the messages she portrayed through her music. As always, the rumors roar after something like this happens to a young, Grammy-winning star. The documentary tells a deep and dark story that will, no doubt, send chills up your spine. A lot of times we see headlines and do what we do best as a critical society: judge and assume. The documentary breaks through the ‘overdose’ stereotype we saw with the losses of Janice Joplin, Heath Ledger or Whitney Houston. The trailer leaves us with a quote from Amy that perhaps foreshadows where her decline rooted from: “I’m not a girl trying to be a star, I’m just a girl that sings.”

Fittingly, July 23^rd will mark the four-year anniversary of when Amy was found dead in her North London apartment. The tributes will be scattered across the world remembering the star who left it too quickly. Film critics everywhere are saying the documentary is a frontrunner due for a 2015 Oscar. Prepare for an emotional roller coaster and see it for yourself.