Sunday, December 5, 2010

Do You Think Nami Is Hot?





When routine bites hard,

and Ambitions Are low,

and resentments ride high,

but emotions won't grow,
and we're changing our ways, taking different roads.
Then love, love will tear us apart again.
love, love will tear us apart again.
You cry out in your sleep,
all my failings exposed.
and there's a taste in my mouth,
as desperation takes hold.
just that something so good just can't function no more.
But love, love will tear us apart again.
love, love will tear us apart again.
love, love will tear us apart again.
love, love will tear us apart again.


If we ignore the testimony of the director himself, "Control" ( Anton Corbijn, 2007) is a biopic , a documentary about miserable existence of Ian Curtis, the composer and vocalist of the band Joy Division . It is a dramatization of the life of an artist sick, leader of a cult, introverted, sensitive and melancholy, a kind of contemporary damned poet in the sense of the French classics Rimbaud or Verlaine . Nor refused to drink from other sources lyrical romanticism as William Wordsworth and poetry beatnik Allen Ginsberg .


Corbijn, a photographer by profession, was an expert on the British music scene in the late 70's. In addition to his portraits of Joy Division, worked for other successful bands like U2 or Depeche Mode (Also conducting one of their hit videos).




Ian Curtis (1956 - 1980)

The script the film was made by Matt Greenhalgh , which built for it in the book "Touching From a Distance" (1995), the autobiographical account written by Deborah Curtis , the widow of the late singer of Manchester , he relates his troubles marriage (both were married just 18 years old), its continuous separations, Ian's infidelity with his Belgian girlfriend Annik Honoré (Alexandra Maria Lara ) the deranged artist's personality, constant victim of depression and seizures.



characterizations of Ian Curtis (Sam Riley ) and his wife Debbie ( Samantha Morton) are perfect. The resemblance between the actor and the artist is amazing. Moreover, their interpretations of seizures are quite convincing. The star suddenly loses consciousness and falls unconscious, he begins to have violent muscle spasms and tonic-clonic , accompanied by the emission of foaming at the mouth. In the film we did not confirm the loss of sphincter control, although it may be likely.

remember that Ian Curtis was even suffer some crisis on the stage, as recreated in the next scene from the film "24 Hour Party People" ( Michael Winterbottom, 2002 .) This film is the actor Sean Harris responsible for giving life to the leader of Joy Division.



addition to developing epilepsy (grand mal type ), an expert has labeled psychiatric disorders of Ian Curtis as a probable bipolar disorder . All this combined with his angst, his despair, the poor response to antiepileptic drugs and the abuse of alcohol snuff and end up reinforcing some ideas that ended fatally autolytic on May 18, 1980. Previously he had tried to kill life with an overdose of drugs.


After viewing "Stroszek" ( Werner Herzog, 1977), the story of another suicidal loser and a misfit street musician trying to recover from alcoholism with a prostitute, and after listening "The Idiot" (1977), the iconoclastic album Iggy Pop, Ian Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his home, employing the strings of a retractable clothesline that hung from the ceiling ...



LA EPILEPSY AND SUICIDE


Epilepsy is a disease that can coexist with a range of psychiatric problems pontenciarían suicide risk, such as anxiety, mood disorders, psychosis, eating disorders personality and intellectual deficits. Just as Ian is being treated in hospital after suffering a crisis, his partner Hooky (Jon Anderson ) confesses that until then he thought that epilepsy was a thing of morons ...


magazine Drug Safety in 2007 published an article by Vladimir V. Kalinin in which the author makes a detailed review of the relationship between antiepileptic drugs and suicide.




In epileptic patients, psychiatric comorbidity is a risk factor for suicide, especially when faced with temporal lobe epilepsy or generalized seizures are and complex, as appears to be the case at hand.


In 50% of epileptics have disorders temporal lobe, which manifest as impaired executive function and working memory. Half of these patients also fulfilled criteria for major depression . Certain executive dysfunction, a mode of indecision and contradictory decision-making is evident in the character of Ian Curtis.






there a common neurochemical basis in the pathogenesis of depression, anxiety, obsessive and violent behavior, and risk for suicide is a dysfunction of the serotonergic system because l would to serotonin a protective role of suicidal behavior. In turn, this neurotransmitter has also been linked with certain types of epilepsy, as low serotonin levels decrease neurogenesis.


Regarding the pharmacological treatment of epilepsy, Kalinin article we draw the following conclusions:

  • Phenobarbital or phenobarbitone : a barbiturate marketed by Bayer in 1912 , used as a sedative and hypnotic until emerged benzodiazepines in the 50's of last century. Drug with a sinister history, having been chosen by Nazi doctors in their programs of eugenics to exterminate the infants born with physical deformities or ill. Was used in epilepsy to demonstrate its effectiveness in a wide range of crisis, which is usually cheaper. But had significant negative effects on cognitive and affective areas of the patients. It was suspected that the neurotoxicity (for folate deficiency ), enhanced in the long-term treatment could cause an increased risk of suicide and treaties, especially in women.
  • phenytoin or diphenylhydantoin: discovered in 1908, but began to be used as an anticonvulsant in 1938. Although apparently less harmful than phenobarbital, treatment with this drug also may cause a folate deficiency, which may be associated with depression and increased suicide risk.
  • Carbamazepine: a neurochemical level an increase of serotonin. Anticonvulsant properties may have a neuroprotective effect on brain structures. Apparently reduce the risk of suicide for their antidepressant effects. Has shown an inverse correlation between average daily dose of this drug and suicidal tendencies.
  • Oxcarbazepine: limited drug studies and not sufficiently evaluated. No conclusive data.
  • Tiagabine: a reuptake inhibitor of GABA that is used as adjunctive therapy in refractory partial epilepsy. His relationship with suicidality has not been widely studied, but use caution in patients with high risk of suicide.
We do not enter a value other drugs such as valproate, topiramate, lamotrigine, gabapentin, vigabatrin, levetiracetam and zonisamide because there is no mention in this film.





Even considering
that this is not an autobiographical film, no film have too much data that we provide information on the type of epilepsy that have our hero.


find a teenager who seems to suffer from a lack during chemistry class (the boy was playing with the letters of his name IAN to make them I-AM).


Together with his colleague Nick ( Matthew McNulty) has a strange habit, visiting the old neighborhood in order to steal some pills in your medicine cabinet and then experiment with the effects of medication. We witness how both boys eat some tablets "cirazapan" , an alleged drug antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia , whose side effects would emphasize drowsiness, apathy, agitation and blurred vision. Consumption of certain drug and alcohol abuse may be causes that trigger epilepsy in adolescence.


Working as a counselor working in the tough stage of the governments of Margaret Thatcher, Ian has witnessed the suffering seizure a girl who was attending. Impressed by such unpleasant experience will write the lyrics of the song "She's lost control" ...





After suffering a seizure while returning from a performance with his band, Ian is treated in the emergency room of a hospital. There are prescribed phenobarbitone . While you do not get an appointment with the neurologist, is treated by a doctor certainly skeptic (Paul Arlington ) that establishes a treatment for epilepsy a real cocktail of pills and informs you of the unpleasant effects of medication:

  • Carbamazepine: rashes, double vision, drowsiness, dizziness, bloating ...
  • Phenytoin: drowsiness, acne, inflammation of the gums, nausea, vomiting, confusion and mental slowness.
  • Tiagabine: an anachronism, since the drug was approved by the FDA for the treatment of partial seizures in adults in 1998. Therefore, it is hard to believe that Ian Curtis take this medication in the late 70's.
  • oxcarbazepine, was synthesized in 1966 and approved for use as an anticonvulsant in 1990 in Denmark. In Spain, adopted in 1993 in Portugal in 1997, and in other EU countries in 1999. In the United States would have to wait until 2000. Among its most common side effects are fatigue, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, lightheadedness and blurred vision.
The doctor also advised to avoid staying out late, sleeping early, and consumption of alcoholic beverages, really tough conditions to meet given the pace of life and activities which by then had the Joy Division.



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The cover image of his first album for Factory Records , "Unknown Pleasures" (1979) was the idea of \u200b\u200bbattery Stephen Morris, who found in Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy . This is a representation of the successive pulses from the pulsar PSR B1919 +21 , first to be discovered, in 1967, in the constellation Vulpecula by the British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell . The sober final form was given by renowned graphic designer Peter Saville .






The cover of the second and final album by Joy Division, "Closer" (1980) shows a photograph of a beautiful tomb. Was released shortly after the death of Ian Curtis. The image chosen was a kind of fatal premonition.





Joy Division took their name from the novel "The House of Dolls" (1955), written by Holocaust survivor Yehiel De-Nur (born Yehiel Feiner ) under the pseudonym original Ka-tzetnick 135633. This was called the large group of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps used as sex slaves to satisfy the troops of the Third Reich.





Ian Curtis was a great lover of literature. Her favorite authors were William S. Burroughs, JG Ballard and Frank Kafka, who had a decisive influence on several of his compositions. He was also a regular reader of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. In one of the first scenes of the film, while Ian is locked in his room to smoke and enjoy the music of David Bowie (and more specifically the Lp "Alladin Sane" ), the camera stops a moment on a shelf where books lie JG Ballard ( "Crash" and "The exhibition of atrocities" ), Burroughs ( "Naked Lunch" ), Norman Mailer ( "The armies of night ") and Ginsberg (" Howl ", of \u200b\u200bcourse) ...


A STORY: Between Curtis's books can also see a copy of "Ah Pook is Here" , William Burroughs, work on which began working with the artist Malcolm McNeill in 1970. This story appeared in a comic strip the British magazine "Cyclops" . After the demise of it, both authors thought in developing the concept as a whole book, a "novel of word and image", a graphic novel ... It is expected that "Ah Pook is Here" is released next year 2011! Therefore, the appearance of this work as such in the Curtis Library represent a complete anachronism, a typical fitting error of ...


another ... Following the testimony of Deborah Curtis, her young husband decided to paint the living room of his humble home in Barton Street azure ... Later, Ian tells her lover Aimee that her favorite color is blue so precisely that special, it shining in your kit the Manchester City ...







The slide guitar Ian Curtis in some of his videos and performances (as in that of the famed "Love Will Tear Us Apart" ) is a Vox Phantom ... Today, a relic species, more appreciated for its peculiar shape than for their sound ...




Actors Sam Riley and Alexandra Maria Lara are a couple in real life ...




In "Control" also involved the performance English poet John Cooper Clarke , born in Salford within the catchment area of \u200b\u200bManchester, which began to become popular by the recital of verses in the concerts of some groups flagship of the British punk movement, as Sex Pistols, The Fall or Buzzcocks.


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