Heavily flawed. Well performed.

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2019)

I understand this is a remake. Still, the presentation of this film is heavily flawed.
As a musician that's suffered through addiction and came out the other side a better man...to his family, his friends, his community and society, I have you ask yourself these questions.
If a man suffers through intense withdrawals, regains his sanity, and his family is by his side at the end of it....if this man has had the strength, courage and heart to become a star in the first place.....if this man has been sober for months, been accepted and forgiven by his love....
Would this man allow another man IN HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD (record company executice) sway him in even the slightest towards suicide when the love of his life invited him on stage to the place where it all started?
False.
If he had been on countless benders for weeks? Potentially.
If he had been on countless benders for weeks and fighting with the love of his life in the entirety of said benders sabotaging her career? Yes, but even then questionable as he would not have likely made it to this point without ending it all, especially with the forshadowing scene in rehab.
ALTERNATE ENDING: Jack is not a victim of his life. He takes responsibility for his actions, sees how his life improves when he's sober, takes those pills and throws them out of the window of his truck (as I did all of my cocaine and pills when I got clean) as he meets the love of his life on stage.... slays the show in the rec exec suits face, because he's a man and no man lets a man like that come between him and the love of his life....especially when the man influences her to lose her true self.....
After the show... she tells said rec exec suit off, they sttle down have children, and they live a REAL life. Not without problems. Not some fairy tail, but an accurate account of those of us even strong enough to make it through detox and put our lives together and live.
With the current ending....What about Ally? Is she really to spend the rest of her existence loving him only? FALSE.
Here's reality again.
Alternate alternate ending....not two years after Jack's suicide, she gets swept off her feet by another stud! Facts of reality and there is nothing wrong with that. She deserves to love again. Love is real though temporary, and easily replaced.
If a drunk pill popping walking disaster can sweep her off her feet, howg is she going to stay true to him after he's dead?
Ask yourself all of those questions.
Hollywood force feeds us all blue pills, and the quality of performances (Cooper and Gaga were exceptional in this film) make them easily digestible.
I understand Bradley Cooper has been sober for many years and this is a firm message in support of sobriety. I can't disagree.
However, alcoholism and drug addiction is NOT a disease. It's a habit. The habit is formed by running from and suppressing emotional pain and trauma. It is not a disease that we are helpless victims to and have to escape by taking our lives.
We create our own alternate endings.