|
|
It depends on how you see it..., Sep 7 2001
If you view this book as the biography of a woman who also happened to be Ian Curtis' wife, it's fine. If you view it as a book about Ian Curtis, it's not very fine. In fact, as several people have pointed out - Deborah never really seemed to be all that close to Ian. Whether that was her fault or whether it was because Ian was just being a jerk is not for us to judge (and as someone else said earlier, Deborah was likely bitter herself, seeing as Ian was having an affair, and thus more than likely to simply explain it as the latter). In essence, we learn what Ian did at such-and-such point, but never what inspired him to write "She's Lost Control" or "Twenty-Four Hours." In fact, Deborah seemed to be rather resentful towards the band and blamed it (among other things) for driving a wedge between them. She did not understand him, and he did not understand her (remember the words to "I Remember Nothing"?). I will, however, say the one thing about what some people have said - Ian Curtis, though it would be cretinous to assume he was devoid of faults, was certainly not a Nazi. As I understand, Deborah wrote that he was "obsessed" with things like the uniforms, the appearance, the organization of Nazism. Interpret that as you will. I will, however, bring up two quotes, both by Ian Curtis himself: 1. "This is the room, the start of it all / no portrait so fine - only sheets on the wall / I've seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain / and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained / where will it end?" - Joy Division, "Day of the Lords" 2. "All dressed in uniforms so fine / they drank and killed to pass the time / wearing the shame of all their crimes / with measured steps they walked in line / they walked in line" - Joy Division, "They Walked in Line" Somehow that does not strike me as something a diehard Hitler fan would say. In fact, it seems to me to be the direct _opposite_. And "Decades," though I still don't know what it's about, has always brought up images in my mind of young Allied [European] soldiers going into Germany at the end of World War II and discovering the full unspeakable horrors of the concentration camps - "we knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chambers / pushed to the limits we dragged ourselves in" - and being scarred by that for life. So, judging from Ian's _own words_ that he _passionately sang_, the "Ian was a Nazi" argument becomes rather groundless. (Why do people make such statements, anyway?) ..., the _name of his band itself_ comes from a book that describes the _utter terror_ of a Nazi camp. And so, after all that, at the end of this book, we're not a single step closer to understanding the kind of person Ian was. (I'm not even getting into the idea that we, based on some of what I mentioned above, don't really know how much faith to put in Deborah's book...) Kind of frustrating, really...
Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ?
 
|
|
|
|
Accueil Amazon
