Movie: Control (2007)
Trivia: The black-and-white film was actually shot in color, then transferred to black and white because, according to the director, the black and white film “was so grainy it looked like Super-8 even in 35 millimeter.”
Goofs: Anachronisms: Joy Division is shown performing “Transmission” on Tony Wilson’s television show in September 1978, but in reality, they performed “Shadowplay”. The performance that is represented in this scene actually took place a year later in September 1979 on the BBC2 program “Something Else”, when they performed “Transmission” (a performance which was used as the music video for the song) and “She’s Lost Control”.
“Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him. Written by Marco van Hoof <k_luifje7@hotmail.com>”
