Who read about human suffering in Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Hesse and Ballard, read to his wife Debbie about how ‘there is no mystery so great as misery’ from Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, and talked about poetry and literature with his girlfriend Annik, who he met after a concert in August 1979.Īccording to Peter Hook, ‘there were just too many Ian’s to cope with.
The aesthete who had an obsession with death and rock and film stars who had died young. The film isn’t about Ian, it is told through Tony’s point of view so of course his death is not explored because Tony is a narcissistic asshole who only cares about himself.Īnd finally, I would wager the film probably exposed 1000s more people to Joy Division who went on to learn a lot about the band than would have otherwise, and people who walked away from it thinking that Ian was just some cunt would never have engaged with him in the first place.The lad who partook in all manner of laddish pranks with band and friends, such as fighting, drinking, ‘chasing groupies and pissing in ashtrays and looking at turds in toilets’, as Joy Division bassist Peter Hook remembers. The fact that you whine about how the movie treats Ian’s death just shows your fanboy goggles have made it so you haven’t actually engaged with the film. It’s like saying the movie Anastasia doesn’t provide an accurate portrait of Czar Nicholas 1, when it never even tries to nor would anyone expect it to as it is made for children. And not only that, the movie could not be clearer or more direct in its claims of artistic liberties and of its unreliable narrator.
You’re judging the movie for something it has no aspirations to, the movie has no responsibility to provide a fair or rounded picture of anyone. It is not a documentary nor is it a biography, it is a film written from a point of view of a fictional character based on Tony Wilson.
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