Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Now first of all, i don't know if this contains spoilers but just in case warning. I'm gonna start off talking about the album. I was at a cousins house over the summer and they were talking about The Wall and Pink Floyd and i was like OK. later i was in my dads old room (we were visiting his parents) and i wanted to be antisocial so i started listening to music. i decided to try out the Wall. it took me two days to listen to for the first time but it was and still is the best album i have ever heard. i have listened to pink Floyd almost nonstop since then. This happened at the beginning of the summer, by now i can tell you what everything symbolizes. The wall is (obviously) a metaphor of isolating himself, the album/movie is split into thirds. 1/3= In The Flesh?-Empty Spaces (in the movie the order is fed up but the story stays the same) 2/4 Young Lust-Goodbye Cruel World 3/4- Hey You-Comfortably Numb 4/4- The Show Must Go On-Outside The Wallusing this we will look into symbolism -Worms are common. this is symbolizing death and its usually implying he is waiting to die. -Hammer! this Symbolizes Neo-Nazis and Worms are used as another word for the hammer-skins because Fascism and death are often correlated and worms represent death Wall- isolation and that's all the most crucial stuffhere is the story (some is from movie some is from album)quarter 1 tells the story of pinks life as a child during WWII, Goodbye Blue Sky sings of the London Bombings. Mother is about his overprotective mother. his dad dies in the war (another brick 1), his teachers were incredibly abusive (Happiest Days, Another Brick 2), and then he grows up.Quarter 2 is about his adult and love life. After the girl he fell in love with in Quarter 1 cheats on him he gets sad and so he is in a trailer. he is a rock star now by the way. A girl comes and knocks him off his feet (Young Lust), as the years progress things get harder and eventually Pink becomes abusive and crashes up an apartment, throwing things at his wife (One Of My Turns), she leaves and he starts grieving about the mess (Dont Leave Me Now), he decides he doesn't need anything and is going behind his wall (Another Brick 3), He completes this in Goodbye Cruel WorldQuarter 3 starts off with Hey You which is either him trying to escape or see if hes alive. throughout he gets more and more desperate realizing he is stuck. he goes into a deep depression and starts doing drugs and going deeper into depression. eventually he just passes out and starts remembering (Nobodys home), he remembers when he was young and went to look for his dad at the train station after the war in the heart wrenching Vera/Bring The Boys Back Home. in comfortably numb some people give him drugs and he starts hallucinatingQuarter 4 is him on a drug trip where he fantasizes about fascism and then throws a trial for himself (the ending Trial/Outside the wall). In The Show Must Go On he is preparing for a show. In The Flesh he sings and finds out who is gay/black/Jewish, then Run Like Hell, Waiting for the worms are intense sequences of fascism then at the end of Worms is stop. stop leads into the trial. the trial is probably the most intense and amazing song. Pink is testified against by, The Schoolmaster, His Wife, and the Judge. These are all rage filled songs. His mother wants him to be safe and not in trouble. then at the end the wall is destroyed and if you see the movie you can tell he didn't make it. outside the wall is people cleaning up after the wall. the lyrics probably imply the funeral after Pinks suicide (the destruction of the wall)Thanks for reading, watch the movie and listen to the album and this will make more since, also FOR PARENTS i will add that the movie does contain multiple scenes with boobs during quarter 3 and also we see Pink and the wife having sex in Don't Leave Me Now but this is portrayed in a more disturbing manner. the movie is incredibly disturbing, and violent even though the worst of the violence is animated. recommended 14+also listen to the album first

I hated this album when it first came out because I was a member of the "old camp" Floyd fans, i.e. "Meddle". I confess to avoiding the movie treatment for 35 years. Until today. What a glorious way of celebrating the solstice. This movie is what Tommy tried to be but failed at miserably. Quadrophenia meets Fantastic Planet, and, no, you need not be stoned or tripping to appreciate it. You might even miss a lot if you are incapacitated. Wow, what can I say? I wasn't even a follower of the Boomtown Rats, but Bob Geldorf's got the pipes for it, for sure. The only thing that would have made it better is the Syd Barrett input, but it is an amazing film nonetheless with a message that resonates today, at least in America

"Pink Floyd The Wall" is a study on a rock star's descent into depression, madness, and ultimate realization of what his life has been. Pink Floyd songs add as much to the meaning of the movie as the visuals (which are live and animated). I was in my early teens when I first saw this movie, and I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Viewing it for the second time in my forties, I understand it very clearly, and look upon it as a modern work of art. My most memorable, movie moment of "Pink Floyd The Wall" is the sequence where a fascist group has a rally and then take to the streets to destroy anyone who is not like them. This is especially notable today in America, where there is a growing movement of intolerance, hatred, and prejudice.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982): Dir: Alan Parker / Cast: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Jenny Wright, Eleanor David, Alex McAvoy: Compelling dark musical masterpiece exploiting the walls of isolation. The film exposes numerous factors that contribute to this wall. Bob Geldof plays a cynical rock star found overdosed on drugs in his trashed hotel room. Flashbacks indicate his lonely childhood, mockery at school, an overbearing mother, his failed marriage, and his father's death in the war. His rage takes full effect as a groupie hovers in a corner as he trashes the room and sends a TV crashing to the ground below. Pink Floyd's title track brings conviction as a classroom becomes a slaughterhouse to faceless students marching in matching uniforms. Tremendous direction by Alan Parker aided by Pink Floyd whose lyrics fuel the story. It is also highlighted with exquisite animated segments. Geldof is ideal and dead to the world as his mind conjures up images of death, destruction and a possible ray of hope in the final scene. Christine Hargreaves plays his mother who neglects him. Jenny Wright plays a groupie who gets more than she bargained for in her attempt to seduce. Eleanor David plays his wife who answers neglect with an affair. Alex McAvoy as the strict teacher who spews a famous quote from the film. Visual masterpiece about breaking through to sanity again. Score: 10 / 10