Anton Corbijn is completely loyal to the memoirs written by Ian's wife Deborah Curtis to shape Ian in the film, but objectively speaking, Deborah himself has never understood why Ian committed suicide, let alone understand the part he projected in the music. Feelings. Anton Corbijn chose the memory of a person who is closest to Ian and who should understand Ian best according to common sense to shape Ian, but the film's foggy chaos also revealed the cause of Ian's tragedy from another angle. The wife who understands and supports him the most, but has no way of feeling his pain, and has never really stepped into his world in a decent way.
Most of the time, in the black and white images performed by Sam Riley, who looks like Ian, except for the only musical performances, what people see really looks like a British Qiong Yao drama. Cancer men are emotionally indecisive, The sloppy expression is vividly and vividly, in front of two women who both have feelings for him, the sentimental man who wishes to be monogamous is indeed hateful in the eyes of women. But he's just that damn Ian Curtis, who projects all his negativity, despair, and poetic insight into Joy Division's dark songs, and can't help but use him as a symbol because he and Joy Division's music has become synonymous with the dark side of us ordinary people. After we felt these darkness and hardships, we forced ourselves to cheer up, but he could only let himself sink into endless purgatory. To a certain extent, he is a person who should be deified, so for those of us who believe in salvation from him, restoring such a young Ian Curtis is like Martin Scorsese in In "The Last Temptation of Christ", Jesus was asked to take care of his family and have a wife, but he was afraid of death and finally did not want to be the savior of the world.
But it only took three or four years from his fame to his death. At the age of 19 to 23, he may not have time to experience life in depth. He is just a child who blindly imagines and exaggerates his pain and emotional injury. There are people in the world who are more painful and miserable than him, but the biggest mistake of the movie is that it doesn't let us see where his "divineness" is, why there has been so many years after his death to the present. Young people believe in Ian Curtis and Joy Division like a spiritual mentor. How did he influence the music inspiration and the trend of rock music for generations after his death, and why did he become a symbol of an era and a milestone in the history of rock music? That's the supposedly humbling part that's really missing from the movie, and it's why "Control" can't be compared to "The Doors," which Oliver Stone had been preparing for years. It must be said that Anton Corbijn has extraordinary talent in making music videos, but a good movie is not just a super long music video with smooth pictures.
Published in the August 2008 issue of "Popular Songs Rock".
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