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now listening to Joy Division will always be when lead singer Ian Curtis tragically ended his short life of 23 years in 1980. Next, Ian's deep voice seemed to be a disturbing sign. Although Joy Divison, who has never achieved a huge commercial victory, has a profound influence on the later bands (including a group of flat emo bands), but always walks on the edge of the mainstream. The name "Happy Squad" actually refers to the Nazi concentration camp as a wing of the brothel. From the name, you can imagine how cheerful the band will be, and Ian Curtis’s Yin Healing lyrics and the production of echoes from abandoned factory buildings in post-industrial cities, to the end, the sad ending that we already know, has already hit the depressing package. It's the last wrapping.
When I went to see Control last weekend, it was the busiest time at work. I had been doing it for two weeks without a break, and I was nervous until 11 or 2 o'clock every day. Coming out of the movie theater, I feel a little dizzy. I don’t know if it’s the exhaustion or the monotonous melancholy is too overwelming. It may be due to the simultaneous action of the two. It is the same as drinking strong alcohol under weak conditions. Sun sat down in front of the computer in the dark office, and unknowingly walked into the sluggish, depressed atmosphere in the northwestern suburbs of England. But I am complacent about the feeling that this fantasy hijacks reality.
There have been too many reports in the media about this film in advance, but it will cause some madness and irony. Although there are various flaws in the film, you can deeply appreciate the enthusiasm of the director and actors in the process of watching the film. In a bit of vulgarity, it is called a true emotional person. Therefore, I gave him a five-star evaluation. The unknown actor Sam Riley’s indie band 10,000 things may be very mediocre. But his reshaped image of Ian Curtis is still very enjoyable. Not only does the live performance learn Ian Curtis’s unique action attitude only wonderfully. The anger, depression, neurotic fragility, and epilepsy in every shot are all very contagious. Except for love will tear us apart and atmosphere, all JD back catalogues in the film are performed live by the'Joy Division' on the screen, which increases the degree of conviction. Samantha Morton, who plays Curtis's widow Debbie, is also a well-known character actor in independent productions, performing as well as ever. As a rock photographer, Anton Cobijn himself has kept many classic black and white images of JD back then. He naturally knows how to use the lens to express such a legend. The gray council blocks of Macclesfield are grim and beautiful, and they linger. The close-up lens and the delicate details of life create intimacy with the audience.
The film is very stylish, and cold-eyed comments may not be profound. It may be a bit simplistic to attribute his suicide to illness, emotions, and confusion about success (in fact, only Ian Curtis himself knows the real reason) but It will be very moved for all the critics in their forties (that would be the music they listened to when they were young) and everyone who has listened to JD seriously. (Interestingly, the observer’s reviewer Phillip French was the observer who gave a low score in a good review, but he was already in his 70s, and I guess he belonged to another world at the time.) The first half of the film was a band start-up. Period light-hearted memories of childhood nostalgia. If you have ever lived in a youthful, sensitive, solitary and gregarious stage, hiding in a room smoking a cigarette and listening to music that most of your classmates have never heard of, and immersed in a different world, you will naturally have more resonance. In the second half, I started to feel heavy depression, and at the end, wisps of smoke floated from the chimney of the crematorium and merged into the austere landscape of Northwest England. Accompanied by the heart-wrenching melody of Atmosphere, I did feel a chill on my back and hot eyes.
I saw a pair of Chinese students in the lobby of the movie theater. The girl was saying that Sam Riley looked like. I suddenly felt jealous. Maybe I watched it with a friend who was my age and came from the same place. I can simply believe the movie. It is the best way to give us a legend that is undefendedly moved to the point of pattering.
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