What bugs me about this movie is how hard the director tries to make everything appear drab and sad. Where was the joy of being in a band? Ian surely snickered every now and then. But instead we get a mopey Joy Division who never crack a smile or do anything remotely fun. The whole movie is focussed on Curtis's suicide and so the entire mood must bow to that? Come on! This is ridiculous. If you want a more realistic approach, watch 24 hour party people.
shareOk, but his life doesn't seem exactly like it was some wild party
That's the impression deborah gave in the book and this is the directors interpretation of that. He spent most of his teen years saying he wouldn't live long and he didn't think he would make it late into his twenties. So I assume death kind of lurred on him for a long time and that's the general feeling with the film.
Gotta find some therapy, this treatment takes too long
"If you want a more realistic approach, watch 24 hour party people."
This film was realistic! This movie was about Ian Curtis....his relationship with his wife, the band and his Belgian mistress. Tony Wilson and the bands manager, were pretty much relegated to background stories.
I wish there had been more background information as to why Ian abandoned his wife and baby for a woman who came across as nothing more than a whispering starstruck clingy groupie. There appeared to be nothing special about this woman. If there was, this film didn't convey it. All she did was bat her eyes at Ian a few times, then he fell for her?
If you want to see a movie about Tony Wilson, owner of Factory Records, watch "24 Hour Party People". It's all about Tony and the formation of Factory.
It's obvious Ian Curtis had a physical as well as a mental illness, he wasn't a happy cheery party animal. Why would the director create a false persona for Ian Curtis? Not every film has a happy ending.
The name Joy Division doesn't exactly have 'joyful' connotations. The Joy Division was the name for areas in Nazi concentration camps where some female prisoners were kept alive to be prostitutes for the German army. Joy? I don't think so.
OMG, what did you want, a lovely little diddy about Ian Curtis, the deeply depressed Lead Singer of Joy Division? Jesus Christ, Curtis KILLED himself, and you thought this very true to life movie, was DRAB? LOL, grow up!
What, just for once in your life can't you be serious?
rob gretton, their manager had said in the past that ian was actually very funny and a great practical joker, nowhere near as dour as people picture him- at least not until his epilepsy and depression got really bad. it would have been nie to see some of that, but since both ian's wife and the other members of j.d./n.o. were involved with the film (new order did the incidental music) i guess it was not considered by them appropriate to the story
rob gretton, their manager had said in the past that ian was actually very funny and a great practical joker, nowhere near as dour as people picture him- at least not until his epilepsy and depression got really bad. it would have been nie to see some of that, but since both ian's wife and the other members of j.d./n.o. were involved with the film (new order did the incidental music) i guess it was not considered by them appropriate to the story
The moments in the film where he looks like he's genuinely happy are nice, though there's a reason the film is called "Control". They decided to focus on what made him to do what he did, and I thought they did a great job of showing that.
You want something corny? You got it!
thats a pretty good post and accurate we could be sure
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