The last Joy Division of the post-friend trio is truly great. "Closer", its first album, would be appropriate to describe it as "the beauty of icy despair." "Closer" should be the pinnacle of all post-punk albums. The song "Decades" depicts the desperate crowds in Dante's "Divine Comedy", who are wandering at the door of the region, in front of the dreadful inscriptions. It is hard to imagine that this is a song written by a person in his early twenties.
Ian Curtis hanged himself at 23, 3 years before the rock geniuses who met to die at 26, Jimi Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobin. I have been guessing, what kind of strange life will such a genius have? This biographical film gave me an answer: nothing is peculiar except epilepsy, this is a simple, introverted, sensitive man, artistically gifted, but incapable of coping with the mundane life into which he fell prematurely.
The director is a famous master of making MVs for rock music, but the film he made is unusually simple, and controls the film language of "Control" very well.
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