Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

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

if u don't like pink Floyd's music its normal not to like this movie cause it talks about depression and losing his father when he was a baby then miss treated in school ....its a little bit bizarre do doubt about that.. so it depends on your taste if like to watch a man with huge depression then you will enjoy it and if u like pink floyd and wondered how did they come the idea of writing "the wall " or " comfortably numb " it would be very useful

I'm not a Pink Floyd fan, I never really listened to their music. However I think the idea of a concept album is an intriguing one and I've heard that The Wall is the best one and there's a movie adaption. I picked that up for 2 reasons, one was it was cheaper and the other is I'm more familiar with movie storytelling rather than a series of songs telling a story. But I watched it and what transpires is probably the best band movie ever made.The plot. Pink is a rock star who has walled himself in as he recollects his childhood with a father who died in WWII, a mother who ranges from overbearing to negligent, teachers who shoot down his dreams to adulthood where his wife has an affair while on tour. Soon this causes a mental breakdown and he... becomes a Neo Nazi.What's good here? The cinematography is amazingly good, I love the use of set design, lighting and other such things. It also dives into animated segments where we see what's going on in his mind and these are trippy but never in a way that you don't get the symbolism. I think the movie made Pink without a single line of dialogue... sympathetic. I also think the music, whether you're a fan of Pink Floyd or otherwise balances extremely well with the movie telling the story. I may buy the whole album though because it feels as though some songs last about a minute and none of them are bad in my opinion.I think this maybe the best band movie with the competition being Imaginaerum and Yellow Submarine and I'll tell you why this is better than both. Imaginaerum did tell a good story with good cinematography and acting on an obviously tight budget but that didn't have any of the music from the band. Yellow Submarine fares better in terms of the band's music but the story gets a little off kilter. I would say whether or not you'll like this is entirely dependant on your feelings towards the band's music and art-house storytelling. If you don't like either you'll probably hate this but if you don't have feelings one way or the other towards either like I do then you'll probably like this.

If you happen to be a big Pink Floyd fan, I can not recommend this film enough. It truly is one of the greatest music films of all time. Alan Parker has created a magnificent visualization of Pink Floyd's groundbreaking album. The performances by Bob Geldof, Bob Hoskins and others perfectly capture the essence of the story created by Roger, David, Nick And Richard only a couple years before. If you are going to watch this (and you should) I would recommend listening to the album in full before hand so it is fresh in your mind. Trust me, what ever you create in your brain is nothing compared to the animation created by Gerald Scarfe. In particular the 'What Shall We Do Now?/Empty Spaces' sequence. It is insane, but also amazing on so many levels.Even if you have never listened to Pink Floyd, You can still enjoy this film as the story is almost as compelling as the music. It follows the life of A musician called Floyd 'Pink' Pinkerton (yeah, really subtle) who goes crazy and 'builds' a Wall from society. It truly is an amazing story and Bob Geldof portrays Pink with integrity and passion. This shown off best in the 'One Of My Turns' scene.So no matter your view on music, you can appreciate this film for its stellar storytelling, amazing performances and insane animation.It truly is an underrated classic that should be admired for generations to come.