I'm not a huge Manchester/Factory/JD, NO, or HM fan, but I can see why people could be misled by their own excitement and expectations about the film. It's unfortunate, though, because it doesn;t claim to even be about any of these individuals or bands SPECIFICALLY- it really is just a whimsical portrait of Tony Wilson through his own eyes- and one of the biggest assumed attachments we are encouraged to bear in mind is how much of the film regarding his experience is highly exaggerrated or fiction (the scene with the prostitutes, per se.) I think it's brilliant how the it's basically saying that any film you see based on a real story is bullshit anyway, so here's our story, a lot of it is bullshit and we're going to come right out and tell you this and remind you of it along the way. I have no idea how much of the specific Curtis stuff was candy-coated or rearranged, other than the fact that Peter Hook was much older and fatter looking in real life, but it's also important to be cynical when you go into these things because the fact
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