A movie with a strong British flavor, a solution to my homesickness(?)

Ray 2022-04-19 09:02:19

Finally, I watched the movie that I kept in my pocket list for a long time. It is definitely worth watching in the theater, even listening to music is cool.

"Control" is a super gloomy black and white movie, but the depressing beauty is quite charming. The songs in the film are almost all depressed and painful emotions.

The actor who plays Ian Curtis looks a lot like the deity. He is a handsome guy with no dead ends. He has a very melancholy temperament and charm, and his acting skills are also very good. This film is also a very British film. It shows the daily life of various working classes. Hearing familiar northern accents and idioms evokes a lot of memories about Britain. The agent Rob has an overweight Manchester City like Oasis Brothers. Accent, speech is exactly the same swear words. Speaking of Oasis Brothers, Ian Curtis says he loves Manchester City Blue!

I think Ian's inner struggle is presented a little thinly in the movie. Although I can roughly make up what kind of state of mind he chose to go to a dead end, I still feel that the foundation is insufficient. And I thought he was also a 27 club, but he committed suicide when he was only 23 years old, he was really too young (sigh). Ian Curtis's musical achievements are recognized, and there is really nothing to say about his personal life and morals. It can only be said that he married the wrong person, and he hurt others and himself. I feel that his widow, Deborah, has gone through all these psychological shadows. Should be huge.

At the climax and turning point of the plot, the prelude of Love Will Tear Us Apart, I was caught off guard by the loss of the lacrimal glands, and at the end of the part, the tears kept flowing, and the end of the film also broadcast The Killers version of Shadowplay. Although I have never been familiar with Joy Division's music, I have heard it but didn't particularly remember the song title (I prefer New Order), but I have seen Joy Division's shadow in many of my favorite new generation Post-Punk groups. , like the Irish post-Punk group Fontaines DC, which I have loved so much in recent years, the lead singer has a bit of Ian's temperament, and the singing style and typhoon feel that they are paying tribute to Ian intentionally or unintentionally; another Irish Post-Punk group - The Murder Capital, has a few The first work also has the taste of Joy Division. The lead singer even has a voice and singing like Ian, which can be regarded as a contrast to the contemporary classics from another perspective. After 40 years, it still significantly affects today's music scene.

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Control quotes

  • Ian Curtis: I don't want to be in the band anymore. Unknown Pleasures was it. I was happy. I never meant for it to grow like this. When I'm up there, singing they don't understand how much I give and how it affects me. Now they want more. They expect me to give more. And I don't know if I can. It's like it's not happening to me, but... someone pretending to be me, someone dressed in my skin. Now we're going to America. I have no control anymore. I don't know what to do.

  • Ian Curtis: I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

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