you'll have to shoot me right now but i never realized "Blue Monday" was a New Order song. i mean, i kinda had to know - i've seen the title mentioned every time i check a New Order site out - but i don't remember ever hearing the original version or putting two and two together. but all of that came crashing in tonight as i was watching Michael Winterbottom's (i wouldn't want that name) 24 Hour Party People.
i knew nothing of the Factory label or Tony Wilson other than what i heard when the movie began gaining production speed a year or two ago. i was clueless around those years as far as music goes (i was also between the ages of 2 and 8).
so i went into the film with no idea or stories about that period other than Ian Curtis killed himself. so i went in mostly blank. and i enjoyed the film. i really did.
Steve Coogan gives one hell of a performance in this movie. he's so good it's creepy.
also, i really dug the way the script was written, how the story was told by Tony himself, talking directly to the camera as if he was reporting allof this directly to us. which he is. really cool device. and yes it takes you out of the movie but the style fits the spanning narrative. i thought it was bloody brilliant.
the music is great -- with an amazing nod to Moby during the birth of rave culture in Manchester (even though he had nothing to do with it at the time; but it was still a very cool moment in the film for me).
that's it. i don't have too much to say about it other than the fact that i thoroughly enjoyed it.
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