An "Atrocity Exhibition" in leaving out Joy Divsion's best material

Rating: 3/10 (24 June 2008)

From a Joy Division fan's point of view. the 1980 LP "Closer" was ill represented in this film. "Closer" was Joy Division's Magnum Opus yet only one track "Isolation" was played in the film (Although they had small bits of some of the lyrics a couple times). Most of the songs on Closer are extremely dark / somber and I kept expecting them to come into play around the last 1/3 of the film, when Ian was starting to feel despondent / depressed about his situation. I was disappointed that the producers didn't seem to deem them worthy of inclusion... The songs "Passover", "A Means to an End", "Heart and Soul", "Twenty Four Hours", "The Eternal" and "Decades" were all left high and dry which was an "Atrocity Exhibition" in my opinion. All of these songs were the obvious choices for tracks to play during Ian's suicidal descent in the latter part of the film. I don't think the producers of this film were big Joy Division fans or they would have known the the perfect songs for the ending of the film were the songs Ian and Company were writing / recording at the time the events portrayed in the film were happening. I was very disappointed by the omission of most of Ian's / Joy Divisions most important works...