Movie Talk - CONTROL (2007)

at 5:26 PM Posted by Ashwin Bryan Pinto |

CONTROL (2007)

One of my favourite movies!
Based on Deborah Curtis's biography "Touching from a Distance", Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Kevin Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980. In this time we see Curtis grow from David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Jim Morrison,-infatuated teen to Sex Pistols-inspired punk, and eventually to rising new wave star.

The movie portrays Curtis's secondary school romance with Deborah, their marriage at a very young age, his problems balancing his domestic life with his rise to fame, his affair with Annik Honoré, his struggle with poorly medicated epilepsy and depression and his suicide. In the early hours of 18 May 1980, Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen after having viewed Werner Herzog's film Stroszek and listening to Iggy Pop's The Idiot.

TRIVIA:
  1. Initially, the band was called Warsaw before changing its name to Joy Division in 1978, due to conflicts with the name of another band, Warsaw Pakt. The name "Joy Division" stemmed from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp in the 1955 novel The House of Dolls.
  2. Curtis's memorial stone is inscribed with "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (currently reported stole
  3. The actors playing Joy Division in the movie Control, learned how to play the songs themselves. So the scenes where the band is playing live is not from tape, but actually the actors playing live.

Thing to watch out for: The unique dancing style with swaying hands reminiscent of the eplileptic seisures that Ian Curtis experienced, sometimes even on stage.

(Sources –mainly www.imdb.com and wikipedia.org)

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