A Movie That Radically Rewrites the Myths of<em> A Star Is Born</em>
The wild and challenging <em>Her Smell </em>stars Elisabeth Moss as a self-destructive rocker in a familiar mold—and features an ending in a less familiar one.
This post contains major spoilers for Her Smell.
The prophecy is old: The rocker must die. At least the staggering-about, sensorially scrambled, substance-soaked rocker that fame so often visits must die—or so pop culture seems to want to believe. On some level, must have been because it confirms this. For years of Amy Winehouse’s career, people on when she would die. With each recent shocking overdose—, —came a public mourning process that spotlighted the ways in which they weren’t, fully, shocks. Musicians often leave behind songs seeming to have predicted their doom. Given how convinced society seems to be that artists’ addictions only spiral downward,
