Control

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

On 21.02.2010, at 14:08, Ron West wrote:

> interesting. what didn't you like about it? i really enjoyed it.

I don't mean to offend anyone, but I thought the characters were very shallow and that the story didn't focus much on the music or the band. I thought everyone and everything was much too beautiful for a film about the eighties, making this film very unspecific. It didn't have a feeling, a dense mood like the music of Joy Division has for me. At first I thought I was disappointed because I like the band too much, but my girlfriend who knows only very little about them didn't like the movie for very similar reasons. So I guess I'm not just a disgruntled fan. I think the drama focussed on the two girls, like a good hollywood date movie must, instead of at least trying to show something of the other extremes in his life (such as what working at the employment exchange and singing in a post punk band must have been like). His epilepsy was touched on, the bandmates were very flat farts. You can tell that Debbie wrote the book to this film and made it into a monument for herself...

Seeing German rock pop singer Herbert Grönemeyer (and friend of Anton Corbijn( as the doctor describing the side effects of the epilepsy treatment to Ian was comic at best. 

Sorry, it just didn't click with me...

Has anyone seen "Joy Division", I guess it's a documentary with interviews, from the same year as Control (2007)?

Kai