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movie at Cannes took off his 60th birthday when the "Golden Camera Special Award", in addition to "Best European Film" and many other awards, but the insulation and the Palme d'Or, secular and literary men and women Young people don’t pay too much attention to the awards. Music fans of Joy Division or Ian Curtis may be delighted and regretful. What is delighted is that they finally waited for such a biographical film, but their slight regrets did not receive greater recognition. And being paid attention to by more people. There is such a plot in the film, the Belgian journalist Annik Honore, who intervened in Ian Curtis's life and finally embarrassed and divided him, asked him: "Which movie do you like best?" Ian scratched his head in embarrassment. After thinking for a while, I was rather embarrassed and said: "Well, it's "The Sound Of Music"." This answer surprised the beauty reporter, but it was also ignored by many music fans, because this "The Sound Of Music" is everyone The very familiar "The Sound of Music", it is hard to imagine that this rock singer who sings a dark heart would like this music film that ordinary people like, because in the sacred memory of the literary youth, Ian Curtis’s last gaze is the German director Hull Zog's "The Wanderings of Schuxi", a film filled with extreme pessimism, has become the most heartbreaking picture in the history of rock music because of Ian Curtis and Iggy Pop's "The Idoit".
Another movie dialogue that appeared in "Control" was "Apocalypse Now" starring Marlon Brando. This perverted colloquial phrase from hero to devil is "The horror...The horror..." He often dreams of one A snail "wanders on the edge of the razor", and in his mind only terror and a moral guilty conscience are the two best friends. Ian Curtis also spied his life enlightenment from "Apocalypse Now", and struggled with the film in the dark in the flow of life. Because there are films like "The Sound of Music", "Apocalypse Now" and "The Wanderings of Schuxi", because of Ian Curtis and Joy Division, because of the director Anton Corbijn (he is a loyal fan of Joy Division and the famous rock music modeling photography Music fans and movie fans have reason to have higher expectations for "Control". After all, Ian Curtis is closer to modern people and modern psychology than Ray Charles or Johnny Cash or even Bob Dylan. A master is more of a person from the last century, and the biggest emotional projection of the biopic is nostalgia; Ian Curtis is different, like another Kurt Cobain who died young and took the initiative to kill himself, they are new The spiritual idol and ideological beacon of the literary and artistic youth of the century. But just as the "Control" film has only won a few technical awards at major film festivals, it cannot match "Apocalypse Now" and "Schuxi's Wanderings" and become a new generation classic. Wherever the problem lies, it may also lie "Control" itself.
Musician biographies have such a routine formula: fortune-metamorphosis-sink-salvation, "Control" is not really separated from "Ray" and "Walk the Line" except for the color of the film. This mortar. The film also restores Ian Curtis’s physical and mental process from a fan to a singer. The film began in 1973, the boy who shut himself in a room listening to David Bowie and Lou Reed vinyl records, and ended in a show held in Manchester in 1976. Sex Pistols' concert has since changed the trajectory of his life, to encounter Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, who are struggling to find the lead singer, plus the powerful agent Rob Gretton and the band's benefactor Tony Wilson, because of the unique temperament and performance style. , The band gradually got better, but problems followed. The appearance of the beauty reporter broke the harmony between Ian Curtis and his wife Deborah Curtis, who were married prematurely. Coupled with the trouble of epilepsy and the depression associated with taking medicine, deterioration and sinking have long been inevitable.
Director Anton Corbijn’s professional skills have long been affirmed in the industry. Many Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Bjork, Rolling Stones, U2, Depeche Mode, Coldplay and even Johnny Depp have accepted the command of his shots. He shot Nirvana for Nirvana. "Heart Shaped Box" and "Atmosphere" filmed for Joy Division are too classic. He also moved out of his hometown of Holland to live in the UK out of his love for Joy Division. In order to achieve the minimum sense of truth, screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh spent time interviewing relevant characters in the film, and even figured out a way to get Annik Honore, who never accepts interviews. The film itself is adapted from the memoir "Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Divison" by Deborah Curtis, widow of Ian Curtis, and she herself is the producer. Those who know Ian Curtis best did not deliberately exaggerate his pain during adolescence and art, but wanted to portray him as an ordinary man who was prematurely entangled by marriage, fame and disease, and at the same time deeply caught in the quagmire of "extramarital affair." So in the movie "Control", you can see such a child, he is not handsome, he is not a musical prodigy (not even playing the guitar, this is the same as Jim Morrison), he often wanders in class (maybe epilepsy) A precursor of illness), often put words by the poet Wordsworth on his lips, and smoked in a gloomy house full of rock stars and CDs. What a scene of ordinary literary youth. The difference is that he caught up with a girl early, got married stupidly without much consideration, and became a father before he grew up. In order to maintain the family business, he has to work at an employment agency during the day, wearing a suit and tie in a serious manner. What a "black and white" normal life.
It is music that gave him the real stage of life, and in the sense of the presence of an individual, music undoubtedly gave Ian Curtis greater redemption than love. His natural understanding of rhythm, his unique body language, and his performance And the poetry in the lyrics. Generally speaking, singers become popular either by drug-addicting or promiscuity. At this point, Ian Curtis is more simple, because of his physical pain, but also because of his simple thoughts. The focus of the film on this point highlights the concept that Ian Curtis was truly ruined by a sudden affair. Epilepsy is physical and physical, but extramarital affair is spiritual and spiritual. These two things are unexpectedly torn. The crack invades him. Unlike the grief in the general sense, he did not abandon his wife or daughter and leave with Xinhuan (this is something ordinary people can do, not to mention a master of rock music such as Lennon in the history of rock and roll). Both sides must be taken care of. Unsolvable pain is accompanied by epilepsy like a bomb that will detonate without knowing when. Don’t forget that this is just a 24-year-old young man. Some things have prematurely squeezed his physical and psychological space. The guilt of wives and daughters, the guilt of having an affair, the weakness of the body, and the confusion in music, in the documentary-like trivial and expressionist style of black and white images, legend and truth are woven together, symphony into a kind of "youth" The fading paleness of "fading quickly".
"What's the point of existence? I tried my best to survive, but the past and the future are confused, and now...has lost control..." Who controls? Who controls it again? "Control" didn't discuss the investigation too much, and there was only one way of final salvation-suicide. Death is the beginning of immortality, and the only clear choice for an individual's "existence" is undoubtedly suicide. Or we can explain Ian Curtis's path towards self-destruction from the perspective of existentialism, but the film does not give more internal sorting. Ian Curtis used suicide to allow the dark rock empire to build the cornerstone and start to function, and the so-called "decadent aesthetics" paved the way for later generations of British rock; Ian Curtis himself left everything he could not control, his too simple This can be seen from the answer to his liking for "The Sound of Music"; his too split, which can be found from the fainting on stage and the wandering in love. When the two extreme personality traits of innocence and division appear in a person, they are automatically amplified due to the interaction. Therefore, a female reporter is enough to mess up his life. Because of innocence, the concept of order is in his mind. The roots are deeply ingrained, but in the end they can't escape the reality. With a person's loss of control, the era is smeared with cruel undertones.
He can't control anything. In order to control the order, he can only commit suicide; what is controlling him? Judging from the successful training of New Order in the later period, Joy Division is not a band of Ian Curtis alone. Although the taste has changed, it can still move on. Unlike The Doors without Jim Morrison, it will be depressed. Is the band and the manager controlling Ian? Or is it his wife and female reporter controlling him? He did not indulge in lust, nor was he captured by things outside of his body such as alcohol and drugs. Is the simplicity and division of individual existence controlling him? And these are just external manifestations of being controlled. Who is controlling Ian Curtis? This is undoubtedly not a big unsolved case left by the "Control" movie. If you consider it in this sense, you can understand why the film only won the film festival's technical awards, and it cannot be like "Apocalypse Now" and "The Wanderings of Shi Chuxi" "That's a classic. "Control" is excellently completed from a documentary perspective, but the internal logic is tied down, so the film cannot be a work of art that transcends the era like Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". Because of its rigor, "Control" is a rare masterpiece in a series of musician biographies. Just as the Times commented, "Every inch of film and every detail of "Control" is highly consistent and makes people feel real and realistic. Believe, this is difficult for ordinary music films to do." These need to be attributed to the director and actors. "Control" tried to restore Ian Curtis and his era, but failed to surpass that era. The director ultimately did not give any artistic advice. The expected close-up, between a bang and a click, a gap between historical reality and image reality, and it is this that is what controls Ian Curtis and why so many people still eager to return. At that moment and the reason for worshipping Ian Curtis.
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