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The studio scene portrays this aspect of almost being out of his body because as the people in the studio hear his lyrics about ” fear everyday, every evening” the producer says that the recording is “genius” as if it was a voice coming from some other being, not from the man sitting in the booth behind him. Ian’s life is disembodied once epilepsy takes over and the medications put him in a constant haze. Isolation is a recurring theme that is demonstrated through his stream of conscious used to express how he was really feeling rather than the words coming directly from the character.
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Interestingly, the camera focuses on the group of people in the studio all talking and smiling about the excitement of recording and the producer sitting and listening to the recording, then immediately changes to a close up of Ian in the booth looking completely gloomy without an ounce of excitement or connection to anyone in the other room.Īt this point in Ian Curtis’ life and in the movie there is still a longing to stay connected that is emphasized by the camera close ups on Ian’s glance at his lover and her worried, concerned look at him showing that isolating himself was not going to solve his problem and that rather they would soon collide and be too much for him. The film demonstrates the divide between him and his friends, while he is clearly singing the lyrics to the song Isolation in the recording booth while everyone else is in the studio hearing the music and lyrics, but not listening to what he is saying in the song. However, he was able to keep the facade and after any of his grand mal seizures he kept saying he was fine and he did not really try to talk to anyone about his internal conflicts. Though we now know the fate that awaited Ian, at the time, he was able to separate his artistic image and even use his epilepsy as a type of muse, and did so throughout many of his lyrics and songs. The fine line between living his normal life and falling victim to epilepsy became blurred and isolating himself from all that surrounded him such as the scene in the recording studio shows that through his isolation, Ian was able to separate his two worlds so that no one would really realize what was going on in his mind. Although his life was well integrated and appearing to move in a positive direction with the discovery of his epilepsy and the rapidly increasing seizures, Ian with his disability, began to isolate himself from his band mates, his job, and all other aspects of his life. After watching the 2007 film Control about Ian Curtis and his struggle between balancing his position in the band Joy Division and his increasing epileptic problems, it is clear that isolation was a common and prominent theme in his life and was portrayed throughout the movie.