has anyone seen this?

what an absolutely amazing film! it's about ian curtis (from joy division) and his fits of depression, epilepsy, and experience with joy division and his wife. anton corbjn directed the film and it shows, as practically every single frame is incredible. i'm talking incredible to the point of distraction. a couple of times i was so caught up in the way a scene was shot, i found myself paying more attention to that than the film.

apparently the movie is based on the book deborah curtis, ian's wife, wrote. she was also one of the producers so, while i didn't read the book, i'm assuming this is probably pretty accurate (as far as her perspective goes, i mean).

whether you're into joy division or not, whether you know of ian curtis or not, it just doesn't matter. this film's power doesn't need that sort of interest. it may only being playing in select cities at the moment but if it's in your town i would recommend it fully.

I gotta look 4 that one! . I like those depression druggie dark sad films


Whats goin on sassy?

Yes, I thought it was very good. I liked the fact that it was shot in black and white which really added to the atmosphere. It gave it that sense of a gloomy, depressing and claustrophic northern England which can be heard in the music. I thought the acting was excellent, particularly in the leads, Sam Riley and Samantha Morton. I felt that the guy playing Tony Wilson was a small slight. Basing his character more on Steve Coogan's interpretation in '24hr Party People' rather than Wilson himself.

Did you find the scene with the guy in the job centre amusing?! 'I don't like hotdogs!'

JDInteractive said:

my opinion is films about real-life that are set in the past should always be in black and white, lol. well, maybe not all of them but the ones that are quite serious or dramatic mke good b&w films.

i thought the scene with the kid at the job centre was cute. what i thought by the end, though, was how fitting it was that ian curtis worked at a job centre, placing a lot of handicapped people in jobs, and then ended up with his own epileptic problem.

paisleypark4 said:

he wasn't really a druggie, though. he started having seizures (possibly from stress or just epilepsy that came on later in life) and the meds the doctors prescribed him had some nasty emotional side effects.

by the end of the film you wonder if his life would be different if he didn't take all those combos of epilepsy meds. it's really a tragic story.

sassybritches said:

Deborah Curtis, I saw somewhere, said that Ian had already planned to kill himself. Even before they had met. Whether that's true or not is anyone's guess, even hers perhaps. It's not something that's worth pondering over.