T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland / Joy Division

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2009

Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' movie biopic Control (2007), directed by Anton Corbijn, starring Sam Riley; meshed with T.S. Eliot's recitation of his 1922 masterpiece, The Wasteland (1922). With subtitles. Or would you say, lines from the poem.

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  • The Waste Land is a poem about the loss of the age of innocence but from the perspective of a slightly aristocratic, conservative man who bemoans the state of the world after WW1 - the loss of that privileged, idyllic life that only a few knew. It doesn't speak to the masses, it doesn't speak to the marginalised. It doesn't speak to me!

  • Not the Eliot poem that I was searching out- the one with scuttling Crustaceans in a late stanza... but the unknown pleasure of this linkage with Joy Division dictated, in part, this posting. There is much more to say, as always, but my brain is failing to memorize its' more eloquent productions.

  • That was the most interesting thing I have ever seen,.

  • love Eliot

    and love Curtis

  • I saw Sam Riley in 2003 in Glasgow with his band. The best gig i've ever been to

  • doesn't really go, but nice effort // good film and great poem tho

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