Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970’s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions that fuel his music slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division. The strain manifests itself in his health. With epilepsy adding to his guilt and depression, desperation takes hold. Surrendering to the weight on his shoulders, Ian’s tortured soul consumes him. (Source)
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As the trailer states, the husband wanted it, the wife needed it, but no one had it, which of course refers to the title of this movie: Control.
They often say people who don’t fully understand something find it weird, and I must admit I found the storyline of this movie to be somewhat weird, but maybe workable. I’ll have to wait to see.
The movie seems to be about a young boy, who was married early and even has a daughter, but decides to go off to start a band, which gets very popular. Then he loses control and begins having affairs with random woman (as most pop stars do I’m assuming) and the wife is not forgiving and his life is cracking beneath him.