The Film 'Control'
Hello
I have just been lent the film Control by a friend, tis about the life of Ian Curtis of Joy Division.
Anyone seen it, how do you rate it?
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i enjoyed it
seemed like a nice slow insightful look into his life. some really great cinematography as well.
^ this
I'm no Joy Division expert, but it was well paced, seemed to be reasonably detailed and certainly left me wanting to know more. Cinematography was very good - especially the choice of b/w rather than colour.
Good, but not that good.
i thought it was a bit dull
but quite well filmed. and the music bits were good. and tony wilson, and the manager. but the band werent that good.
I thought it was a bit average as well.
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I thought the band did a reasonable job.
But as a film, it is very much about the pressures that Curtis finds himself under and which eventually lead to his suicide. 'Joy Division' and the problems that they bring are given equal weight with his dead end job, unfortunate love life and epilepsy.
songs: good
him, about to go on tour round america, unable to chose between two women that loved him, and an illness treatable by drugs, less than good. Im not saying it wasnt bad for him (hey, thats what depression is!) but didnt think it made for a very exciting film, certainly as we can only conject what he might have been feeling
24 hour party people is better
as essentially control focuses on curtis as a shit husband as its from the book written by his wife.
Yes he was a bit of a shit but he was amazing as a frontman etc.
Anyway yeah its quite a good film, and its really quite pretty.
That's the point though
It's not a film about the band or how Curtis was percieved by the world (although even that comes through at times), it's about his home life and personal issues, hance the decisions to film in b/w, the slow pace and so on.
It doesn't even really paint him out to be a complete bastard but rather as a somewhat tourtured individual failing to cope as he's not entirely in control of his own life.
Yeah i know
but i mean the interesting aspect of Curtis wasnt that he had a few personal issues, i mean lots of people have that kind of thing and it doesnt make for the most exciting film. I still like the film as its interesting, particularly if you are really into joy division to see beind the music, but i think the main interest with Curtis was what he did when he was on stage and with Joy Division, and unless you are a proper fan you might have found it a bit boring.
But 24 Hour Party People and Control are about different subjects are they not?
You can't really compare, they're so different.
Well as a film that features joy division
24 hour party people is better
People complaining that it was dull
They make me laugh.
'Yeah it wasn't that exciting, not enough helicopters exploding or women with three tits.'
I liked it a lot. A lot funnier than you'd imagine considering the subject matter.
Theres a difference between a dull film
and an exciting film thats not an action movie.
Sounds like....
Total Recall!