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Adopting a non-linear narrative by combining different plots using a style called stream of consciousness, this film can feel a challenge to watch. Then again, the challenge, in my opinion, is worth getting over for the ending. This I believe is what keeps the audience interested and perhaps hooked, to a certain extent. 

You’ll get to see Billie Eilish unfiltered, which can both be viewed in a positive and negative lens. The film is filled with profanity, even from her parents, who are involved in the stage and performing arts in a certain capacity.

Eilish’s habit of jumping on stage landed her in trouble, with her spraining her foot and ankle, affecting her whole body, causing her to delay and on another occasion cancel her show, much to her dismay. Eilish ended up in physiotherapy which also involved manual therapy to relieve her muscle/joint pain/knots. It is through this scene that you’ll realise that the famous are humans after all. This has to be my favourite scene because it’s relatable and something I can resonate with.

Eilish’s perspective of her fans where she considers them a part of her is also something I find eye-opening. She understands that they too have struggles the same way she does and has. In fact, there’s a scene where she even says that they’re the reason she’s okay and that she wants them to be okay and not be too hysterical or cause fights at her shows.

As with all folks being famous, from the film itself, the depictions of Eilish being unfriendly at a meet and greet session with “a part of her” are ones to watch because they’re so honest. It’s not all glitter and glamourous, though of course I’ll get to that bit in a sec.

During a set at the Coachella annual music festival by fellow singer-actress Ariana Grande, Eilish restrained herself when she caught Justin Bieber, the Canadian pop singer. Though eventually, Eilish found the courage to go and hug him. At the same festival at the backstage area, Eilish’s reaction to when she crosses paths with Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry is considered one of the many highlights. When it came to Eilish’s own performance at the festival, Eilish is shown forgetting lyrics to one of her crafts “All the Good Girls Go to Hell”.

Eilish also has Tourette’s syndrome and viewers are shown what happens to her and how she copes with it.  

A selected number of theatres in the US had run the film as well as released it on Apple TV + on 26 February 2021.