I really liked the film. The thing that impressed me most was the fact that it didn't fall into the trap of hero-worship, nor of the "tortured genuis who was always going to die young", both of which it so easily could have fallen into.
as someone else on this thread has noted, even at the end of the film, you got the sense that it could have been different - that his suicide was a spur of the moment thing, rather than planned minutely, that on another day he may have just woken up and gone off to america, and i think that it adds to the film somehow.
The other thing that surprised me was how selfish he came across - i personally didn't feel that much sympathy for the "character" of ian curtis - he came across as quite emotionally manipulative, and i didn't really feel sorry for him for the postion he was in with regards the love triangle - he had opportunities to get out of it and be with annika, but decided that he didn't want to, for whatever reasons. obviosuly this is coloured by the fact that it is based on Deborah Curtis' account, so there may be some bias there.
the only thing that i didn't really get was why he was still n love with deborah - the film certainly didn't explain it or give much of an insight into their relationship, or why he stayed with her....
