Psychologist Review of the Wall by Pink Floyd
An set on on the senses, and a actually peachy film!
"Pinkish Floyd The Wall" is a slap-up moving picture, based on the already great album by Pinkish Floyd! I was stunned by the use of imagery, combined with the great soundtrack of the album, which gave u.s.a. a strange, drugged up vision of what a burnt out rock star would see. It's really crazy! Yet information technology shows how these famous rock stars are bombarded with fame and applause, and how insane it can drive an already disturbed person. "The Wall" itself, is the isolation and separation from society and saneness, which is a place that can easily be avoided if only people gave u.s.a. a fair take a chance to. The depressing part virtually the movie is that none of this is the rock star's fault. He was driven to it by loneliness in his growing up years(since he lost his male parent to the state of war), along with psychological torment by his teachers, parents, and above all, his sexually controlling wife. The movie is twisted because this is how the atomic number 82 grapheme sees the world. Worse yet, later on he has already been driven to the edge of his own sanity, in his mind, the people who drove him to that edge, come back to testify against him. It's weird the kickoff time you watch it, and looks a lot similar a crazy music video that was pulled out of MTV. The only difference is that this one is telling a story, and has been transferred to the big wide screen. Alan Parker has directed the film, but Roger Waters seems to be in charge hither, because it's his album, his story, and his conception. All that's really been done here is transforming the album to celluloid. I in some ways, like this better than the album, because at present nosotros have images to reinforce the songs and the story. I wish I could have seen this on the big screen, because the multifariousness of images and the loud music seem compressed and compacted on a pocket-size Television receiver set. You might not sympathize this the offset time, particularly if you haven't heard the album yet. But it really is a great film, and information technology actually has a story and a point that most music videos today unfortunately lack! I think that this movie will teach people the reasons why these talented individuals suffer and lose their minds. The people that have guided and taken care of them while they grew up, oftentimes accept away their power to happily and normally part on their own. And the album and pic's lesson is for not only the people who collection him to his wall to back off, but for him to pull himself out.
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The Human Condition
If for whatever reason y'all should find yourself in the visitor of aliens from the planet Nietsche , a planet whose inhabitants have gone beyond what can be described every bit human nature then much so that they have no knowledge of what being man is , then show them this film that explains everything
The story starts with the Anzio landings that sees the death of Pink's father . As Plato said " Only the dead have seen the end of state of war " and that is bitterly true , man will ever be homo and homo volition always impale man until the end of time
Pink goes to school and education is a double edged sword . It has the potential to educate young humans but as often happens these young humans find themselves being used as victims of whatever mood the instructor is in . Someone must pay for authorities inaquequacies
Pink leaves schoolhouse and falls in dear , but love is the sharpest and near double edged sword in all of cosmos . It inspires simply it also destroys usa . Despite hundreds of millions of homo beings being killed in wars , genocide and purges at that place is nothing then personally painful or as savage every bit the betrayal by a lover . The darkest pits of Hell can non be as hellish or as sadistic as adultery
As Pinkish descends further into his personal madness we encounter him take his revenge . Humans are sexual beings and perhaps this is what makes us both demons and avenging angels . Irony is to the fore as he stops becoming a victim and turns into unfeeling fascist dictator . Someone must pay for all the wrongs Pink has endured and it's the innocent that must suffer
You could go to the planet Nietsche with all the written works of every human philosopher who ever lived and that however wouldn't be enough to explain what it's like to be human being . As information technology stands Alan Parker and Roger Waters have fabricated a denoting movie explaining why humans are the way they are and how they react to the surrounding universe . It's a film whose soundtrack is every bit as powerful every bit the human being condition
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Why is The Wall and so often misunderstood ?
I accept seen the picture show several times now and every time I picket information technology I see something new, something I oasis't seen or heard before. Some unsung line, some lost message... Every time I scout the movie I seem to dig deeper into this complex work of art.
Yet, I cannot tell yous how disappointed I am that this movie is and so underestimated, and, above all, misunderstood. How many times have you heard someone say something similar: "You can't watch 'The Wall' unless you're really drunk or really loftier" ? I have heard this line probably from every unmarried person that has seen the movie and it hurts me so much that nobody really tries to understand the picture show.
The fundamental to understanding the flick is in the lyrics. The film is not simply a long serial of video clips that accompany the album. The images are but a last piece of the puzzle, the final touch on a magnificent piece of fine art.
The first time I saw this flick I felt very embarassed. Yes, embarassed, considering I felt like a fool for hearing the album so many times and not realizing what information technology was about. The movie made me capeesh the lyrics of a rock vocal for the offset time in my life.
The week subsequently seeing "The Wall" for the start time I bought Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut". Do you know what was the first thing I did when I opened the CD instance? I read the lyrics, from the offset to the final word. And I actually tried to understand what the album was virtually.
"The Wall" is so much more you think it is. The only solution to not understaning the movie is watching it again and paying more attention. Once you become information technology, you volition never forget it.
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A fascinating story nigh fascism - Warning! Psychoanalytic content
The opening tracking shot of a hotel hallway that resembles a prison house should clue y'all in as to what awaits. In that location are so many things to like and exist fascinated by in this motion-picture show. And for all of its avant-garde leanings, this is actually a very classically designed story. An iconoclastic music star, Pink Floyd, tries/tries not to think about his past and how he got to where he is, which is borderline psychotic. And considering he's so disturbed, he can't even remember in a linear style, then the journey we have into his mind is necessarily whacked-out.
We also get to run into how fascism is born from misdirected hate and idolatry. As a rock star, Floyd has seen the adulation of his audiences, so he's familiar with the miracle. But at the aforementioned fourth dimension, he detests them for ownership into his human activity. It's like the one-time Groucho Marx joke nigh refusing membership to any group who would let you in. He knows he's a fake (his teachers and people like his wife have told him and so), so anybody else who thinks he's real must be fakes besides. It'southward a big cyclic game. So he can't allow any of them in, behind his wall, because they are, by definition, phony.
It'due south interesting, also, to call back about how he has turned total circle into fascism. Information technology's just part of his dream and how he deals with his acrimony, but information technology's also an interesting reaction to the absent-minded father. Had in that location been no homosexuals or Jews etc., there would take been no need for a Hitler, and therefore in that location would have been no need for his father to die. Simply instead of hating Nazis, he hates the people that "provoked" the Nazis. (I could go on for days with stuff like this, but I'll cease here.)
Just watch the moving-picture show and be impressed with the way information technology works on and so many levels.
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Crazy.... Over the Rainbow I am Crazy.... Bars in the Window
Wow. this is truly a work of art. No, that isn't doing this motion picture justice. This is a masterpiece. No other rock opera, or most movies in full general, tin height the insanity that is this motion-picture show. This flick peers into the mind of an over protected, reclusive, and sometimes fierce rock star, who has taken enough of life and the people in it.
This is the story of Pink, poor old Pink, who'due south father left him one morn in black 44', and who'south female parent was then protective she smothered him with her love and all of her fears; who's wife tried so hard to open his heart, only found that nobody was domicile; and who somewhen built a wall and then high that he could not break gratuitous, and eventually his seclusion from the outside world brought out a side of Pink that he, nor the rest of the earth, would wish to ever see. Before long his sadistic, Hitler-esc side takes command of the world, with help from his zombie like fans who follow whatever command that is thrown at them.
But by the time the dictator is mentally faded abroad by Pink, and he is able to see that shielding himself from the world with his now countless wall is only driving him crazier, information technology could be as well late. And then goes the quote higher up, taken from "The Trial", which is the end of the Wall, and Pink's last chance for freedom from his Wall.
This is just an outstanding movie. Everything works in this movie, the twisted live activeness, the animation that probably is what being insane is similar, and, near of all, the music that is, in my opinion, the greatest album ever created (to Hell with Dark Side of the Moon, it was skilful, just it doesn't even compare to "The Wall"). Pink Floyd is my favorite band (forth with The Who and The Rolling Stones, an odd combination, I know), and when their best album was fabricated into a movie, I knew that Hollywood had at to the lowest degree a fiddling mutual sense, even though Hollywood shunned it, and most of the reviews I've read hither are negative, but I don't care, I'one thousand watching it and enjoying for me, and no other stance matters.
My favorite songs off of this motion picture/album are "Mother", "One of My Turns", "At that place's Nobody Home", "Comfortably Numb" (probably my favorite song, actually), and, of course, "The Trial". One last thing, if you are ever in a position where you have to choose between this and "Tommy", option this, because "Tommy" wasn't very good. In-fact, if it didn't have the smashing music of The Who in it, I would say it blew. Merely a quick reminder. 10/10
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A mad piece of Cinema!
Warning: Spoilers
Alan Parker has e'er had a gift for the integration of music and film, and his efforts over the years have reflected that. Movies like "Fame" & "The Commitments" have made him a director more than remembered for his music video skills than his storytelling, fifty-fifty though he directed gripping controversial more seriously films, like "Midnight Express," and "Mississippi Burning."
"The Wall" tells the account of a stone star's breakdown, Pink Floyd slowing down into madness... Pink's madness is illustrated with living flashbacks of his life... He has visions of his childhood from a baby held in the cradle to his present moment... We accept little Pink suffering from alienation for the death of his father in the state of war, and taken under the intendance of his female parent... We have as well rock and curl star Pink, who is destroyed by his evident insanity and is driven over the edge by his wife'due south adultery and nosotros accept a blown insane Pink, a Nazi dictator nether the Hammer Regime leading a series of occurrences like raping, breaking and pillaging...
Alan Parker translates the music into memorable images that are insensible to beloved or pity... All of Pink'due south life is projected on the screen... Nosotros see and hear songs altered from an abstract concept into a disgusting vision of students existence thrown into a meat grinder...
Pink constructs the wall past building upward tension... In mixing upwards sexuality and violence, he creates a new window into Pinkish'due south grapheme... The animated sequences that reflected Pink's foolishness are important and influential...
Alan Parker's management moves the story cleverly from the present into the past and into a possible hereafter, cartoon a warning, but still contemplating traumas of a kid with hurtful effects on the fully grown man... The event is a mad slice of picture palace, a kind of a bad dream becoming even worse than usual...
The picture show exploits smashing special effects, some frightful and impossible to sympathize... The music praises the moving-picture show so well from declaring noisy stone and roll music to quiet ballads of insanity...
Bob Geldof is amazing equally Pink, the British rock star broken in pieces under the psychological pressure of an American Tour...
Pink Floyd-The Wall is a bizarre blitheness reinforcing its vision of an insane, inhumane, unjust and cruel earth, not easy to follow...
The picture show stands out every bit one of the classic in the teenage scene, particularly teenagers who take or receive narcotic and due to its psychedelic nature leaves you greatly depressed...
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the ultimate baked potato experience
Whether yous're sober, buzzed, high, or fully baked this movie is enjoyable. Anyhow yous look at information technology. Some people will naturally say you can only watch it high for it to make sense. Ignore those pothead hippies. Don't get me wrong I love pot equally much as the next guy only what they say is untrue. Maybe it's more enjoyable baked or drunk just what isn't? If you're under the historic period of thirty and over the age of 12 and haven't seen it experience costless to bring together your generation anytime at present. What you lot missing is a great movie about isolation, depression, and acrimony. And for those of you likewise baked for any amount of attention span put the movie on anyways crusade the soundtrack rules. Withal if you e'er run across a adventure to meet it at a theater, every bit a midnite matinee or just a run of quondam movies, pay any amount for admission information technology'll be worth it. For those of you who bask getting stoned and watching movies run into Story Of Ricky. It's nearly as proficient every bit this. For those of y'all looking for insanity on video see Taxi Driver.
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Superb, clever and highly entertaining.
If you similar Pink Floyd, you'll love the moving-picture show regardless of what you think the cinematic value of the film is. To me, Roger Water's ability to express himself is outrageously smart. He is a genius. His English language is masterful and the manner he expresses how he feels is just mind-blowing. I am certain that every one of united states of america has felt exactly the same equally Pink/Roger felt at some indicate of our life but accept never been able to successfully explicate it. It is therefore my opinion that the lyrics are what make this picture bully. Every bit a movie, information technology also translates those feelings well. All the actors were superb. Alan Parker managed to pull the whole affair together cleverly and all in all it is an excellent option for a belatedly night stoner's kick back - brilliant.
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Paranoia and Madness
When his wife leaves him during a bout, the rock star Pinkish Floyd (Bob Geldof) becomes paranoid and mad, building a wall between the world in his heed and the real globe. The process has begun when he was a child and loses his father in the war, missing him. His overprotective mother and the repressive education at school help to build the insanity process. Now he becomes a violent dictator and goes on trial in his mind, and tries to destroy the wall he built.
"The Wall" is a depressive and touching film by Roger Waters from The Pink Floyd and directed by Alan Parker. The screenplay is fantastic and each time the viewer sees this motion picture, he or she will certainly discover new details that have non paid attention. The cast is fantabulous, highlighting the presence of the cult-actress Jenny Wright in the role of a groupie. The outstanding music score by Pink Floyd completes this masterpiece. My vote is x.
Title (Brazil): "Pink Floyd - The Wall"
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The Wall is i of the best albums/movies ever done
sero 23 March 2000
What can you possibly say except that this movie is amazing?
"The Wall" is 1 of the few movies out there that has a powerful issue on the people are receptive to its message. Told with practically no dialogue, the only guide to the bizarre, frightening, and foreign images is the incredible music by Pink Floyd, from their equally good double album. A considerable number of the songs were re-recorded for this movie, and 1 song (the heart-wrenching "When the Tigers Broke Free") was added. The new versions of the songs are sometimes worse than the album (Waiting for the Worms), and sometimes amend (Mother, In the Flesh).
"The Wall" isn't a pleasant picture, nor is it a simplistic or banal movie. It is cruel, cynical, and disturbing, merely information technology has moments of mankind-tingling beauty and an uplifting message in the end, if you persevere. I recommend both it and the anthology to anyone who enjoys a powerful motion-picture show. In my opinion, "The Wall," along with a few other albums, represents the pinnacle of rock music.
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Can you withstand The Wall
How to draw Pink Floyd The Wall? Feature length music video? Bad acid trip? Good acid trip? The Wall is ane of those interesting experiments where I tin can imagine many people walking away, shaking their caput, and saying "What the hell was that?!?" It is not a traditional narrative film by whatsoever definition, and withal information technology is not without some power from information technology's combination of images and music. It is difficult to define whether this is a film someone should check out or not, but information technology should more often than not be based on your willingness to take a picture that does not operate within the typical confines of standard movie theatre.
The backstory to this project was formed when rock group Pink Floyd was wrapping upwards a major The states tour in the 1970s and pb singer Roger Waters felt disconnection and antipathy for his audience, going so far as to spit on a fan during the tour's concluding show. As a result of this experience, he conceived the concept album The Wall, a tale of isolation and the edifice of barriers between Waters and those around him. The album was later adapted into a major multimedia concert experience and finally, a film. Waters had originally wanted to film the concert, but manager Alan Parker convinced him that that was a bad idea and instead pushed for an original motion picture telling the story of the album in visuals. What emerged is an interesting collection of moments that practise tell a tale of sorts, if a somewhat disjointed one.
The basic outline of the moving picture, as far as I tin tell, is this: Pink (Bob Geldof), a rock singer, has isolated himself in a hotel suite and is slowly going insane. He remembers moments of his childhood, his father's perishing in World War Ii, his female parent trying to fill up the gaps, his teaching, etc. He afterwards reminisces about his wedlock and how he tries to push his wife abroad. He eventually snaps, trashing his hotel room and shaving off all his body hair in the process. When he is finally pulled out of his hotel room past his entourage, he envisions himself as a fascist dictator, bringing death and mayhem to all those around him.
The above description is ane interpretation of The Wall, I am sure there are others. The flick is very much a tale about cutting oneself off from the world, retreating into the individual until there is nothing left for the mind to feed on but your own paranoia and unhappiness. Much of this textile resonates, giving us a glimpse at ourselves at times. Parker'southward imagery, accompanied by animation by Gerald Scarfe, is surrealistic and hard to penetrate at times, just The Wall eventually builds on you lot until you discover yourself understanding more than you lot might think.
Of course, the centerpiece of the film is the music by Pink Floyd. The Wall is ofttimes referred to as their greatest album, and it works well every bit a complement to the visuals. The music replaces dialogue in telling the tale, although, every bit with many rock albums, some of the lyrics are open for interpretation and if you are unfamiliar with the material, The Wall might testify more difficult to follow.
Can I give The Wall a recommendation? To a certain extent, yes. Information technology does have the ability to move you and some of the pic'south message is powerful and insightful. At the same time, is information technology easy to follow and without confusion? Not at all, and many people are just not comfy with that kind of film. I would say that Pink Floyd The Wall is an acquired gustatory modality that may or may not be suitable for your palette.
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fascinating!
Roger Waters has weaved a compelling visual of the journey of a disturbed and misled mind. Though the viewer is sometimes left to sort out obscure animations and confusing images, information technology is non without direction. Subsequent viewings of this movie reveal substance that only a genius could imbue in his writing. Character development through such subtle action in places casts a light upon Roger Waters as a person who understands the frailty of the human mind. The master grapheme, Pink, portrays angles of the human status we all confront at some point by embodying a victimized character: ill over the loss of his father to the state of war; negatively spotlighted at schoolhouse for talents that are apparently unfavorable at the time; unable or just unwilling to relate to his wife; and ultimately shut off from effectively relating to others because of an inability to express himself in ways that others empathise.
Not but is the story captivating, only the music is such that information technology volition always be noted as not only ahead of its time, but timeless.
The Wall is a masterpiece of storytelling, but not in the traditional sense. I must not watch this moving picture expecting everything on a silver platter. Symbolism and metaphors abound, leaving a nifty deal of interpretation and adaptation to the viewer. Sit down with an open listen and let Waters' grapheme assist you read into yourself.
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The disturbing film of the Pink Floyd Album
The Wall tells the story of Pink; a burnt out rock star who has retreated into himself. Told in a non-linear mode we see how he is effected by the loss of the father he never knew in the war; cruel teachers; a wife who leaves him; the adulation of his fans and besides many drugs and finally how he grows to see himself as a fascist demagogue.
This is a far from conventional picture show; there is a minimal amount of dialogue. Instead the story is told through the images we see and the music of Pink Floyd. The images are a mix of conventional live action shots of Pink's life; images of state of war and animation designed by Gerald Scarfe. This is sometimes tragic and sometimes brutally agonizing. The scenes nosotros see perfectly match the music; adding something to what isn't there on the album in a way that makes it hard to just listen without recalling the imagery. The animated sequences demand separate mention; they are creative and shocking in a way one doesn't expect in western animation; they contain a sense of bleakness, brutality and even flowers that border on pornographic! Overall I'd say that this is a must see for fans of Pink Floyd and for those looking for something different who don't mind existence disturbed.
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a great musical film even if it'southward imperfect
I remember the story of the film is amazing. At Los Angeles, in a hotel room, a stone star whose name is Pink decides to build a wall fabricated of bricks later he took stock of his life. He wants to build it for several reasons: a lot of people made him endure, especially his mother his wife and his instructor, he wants to protect his identity because school fabricated him faceless and he feels frustrated past his past life. Just when he's going crazy, he is taken to a concert simply he's still travelling through his fears and his dreams. The wall is in himself and he'll have to tear it downwards and come up dorsum to reality. I saw this film when I was xv and it enchanted me because I'm a big fan of Pinkish Floyd. I saw it recently and curiously It left me unsatisfied. Alan Parker and Roger Waters have made an audacious and seductive moving-picture show and this i features some clever visual and ringing brainwaves. Moreover Bob Geldof is quite convincing in the main role of this helpless and outraged homo; and the animation sequences are very successful and they epitomize Pink's inner universe, particularly the concluding sequence with the hideous judge. However the screenplay of the film is very repetitive: when a lot of pictures are passing by very quickly, the film looks similar a huge prune and this 1 is multiplying the flashy effects. As a conclusion, even if this pic isn't a masterpiece, information technology's probably Parker's all-time musical flick, at least better than the wearisome "The Commitments"
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I had forgotten that this was the greatest movie ever made
I recently rented and re-watched Pinkish Floyd The Wall for the 200th time, and I had forgotten, over the years, why this is my favorite movie. Surprisingly, the reason it is so proficient has little to exercise with a rock star having a mental breakdown. Pink being a rock star is almost incidental to the real message of the picture. It seems as if director Parker took the initial idea of Pink Floyd'due south album and ran away with it. The picture serves less as a study of ane celebrity private, instead serving as a cinematic indictment of all of our worst aspects as human beings: cruelty, brutality, insanity, herd mentality, fascism--all the most negative traits of twentieth century man are splashed upon the movie screen, equally if the Director was asking the audience "Why?" This is a film in rebellion confronting the condition quo. Funny then, that it should be driven by the music of a major rock and coil ring. Just, all in all, that is too the point. The flick of the Wall begins and ends with scenes of oppression by disciplinarian figures (law men, skinheads, teachers, etc.)It is near as if the entire sub textual content of the film is drawing a parallel between the internal alienation of a unmarried individual and the social and global alienation that fostered the cruelties of World War two, the holocaust, ad infinitum. Pinks degeneration is the degeneration of Lowest, confronted by a world that is (still) spinning increasingly out of control, away from the calorie-free, further behind the wall of its own nihilistic will toward self-obliteration. The violence of the imagery, the final "Trial", and the psychic attack of the last montage of agonizing images (masked children put into a meat grinder, drawing teachers becoming hammers, neo-Nazis on a binge) every bit the scene fades into a blank grey wall, are 1000, satirical, operatic "Theater of Cruelty" in a cinematic framework. But it is the concluding lyric (sung past a repulsive, animated "Approximate") that puts the unabridged scope of this picture into focus: "I sentence you to be EXPOSED before your peers..." The Judge , of course, is not merely talking to the fictional "Pink", but to the viewers of the film, and well, the unabridged world, for all that, and again, the Director has, seemingly, high jacked the "rock opera" format, and used it as a vehicle to inquire that ultimate question: why is mankind so mutually interested in its own self-destruction? Why practise nations and civilized cultures slide hands into fascistic thinking? How many war orphans are nosotros still, to this day, creating?
I am not, now, a fan of Pink Floyd'south music, although all of the music in this film is across excellent. Oddly enough, I am the farthest matter from the dope-smoking "hippy" that is supposed to be a Pink Floyd fan. I am an Industrial musician and a author. My favorite music, at this indicate, is anything by NON, Throbbing Gristle, etc. This film has, over the years though, shaped my own creative outlook in ways I am probably not even enlightened of. One does not need to fume dope, or even be a Pink Floyd fan, to exist affected quite deeply by this film. Roger Ebert once said that Star Wars was, to him at least "a perfect pic". Well, Pinkish Floyd The Wall, to myself, is a perfect film, whether you are a pothead or no. I accept given this flick x stars, simply it is a little beyond that. If information technology was but a rock movie, information technology could be rated in a conventional manner. But Allan Parker has done something here that is beyond even the concept of the bestselling album that this picture show is based upon. He has crafted a surreal essay on the madness and self-devastation that lurks within the man spirit. And he has created one of the most sobering, angry, and dizzying satirical pieces always committed to celluloid. In short, this motion-picture show is a work of sheer, jaundiced brilliance.
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Disturbing - only is it relevant for today's audience?
A motion picture made in the 80's – for children of the threescore'due south.
Pink Floyd's The Wall is arguably the all-time `rock opera' e'er. – Merely the malaise and societal issues that the album addresses but seem aged now.
The film, by blending the original music plus skilful re-mixes and new tracks tells a uncomplicated story, simply the imagery used is night and disturbing and relates to the social issues of the time. The film was fabricated when the fears expressed in the novel 1984 were still a threat, (as an bated, while the moving-picture show was beingness made in England at that place was a political campaign comparing the so conservative government of Yard. Thatcher to the Orwellian fascist world of 1984.)
But, every bit much as I and other members of my generation can relate to this film, does it have a message for today'south youth. I recollect that it definitely does. The issues today may be different from those of the late lxx'due south, but, the sentiment and the dangers are the same. We have huge segments of alienated people, we have bigotry and hate, and nosotros have governments which operate in hole-and-corner. We have movements that preach rigid conformity and hate, we accept religions that have lost the message of caring and we accept schools that only want to turn out mindless corporate robots.
In fact, I call up that this movie, and therefore the message behind the music, is More important today. The issues we as a club face now are far more dangerous to personal freedoms than when information technology was first released.
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Sensory Overload
Pink Floyd's best-selling double album is brought to the screen past maverick director Alan Parker as a visually stunning exercise in rock cinema. Pink (Bob Geldof) is a burnt out rock star sitting silently in his hotel room awaiting the night'south show. On the verge of a mental break downward, he gradually spirals into a drug-induced vortex of memories, premonitions and nightmares. Parker'south expressionistic visuals, Gerald Scarfe's surreal blitheness and Floyd'due south pounding music make for an extraordinary experience in sensory overload, and manage to overcome lyricist Roger Waters's often off-putting cocky-indulgence. While never really becoming more than a feature length music video, it's still a great film and has developed a vigorous cult following. Waters has a cameo as one of the witnesses in the wedding scene. Nell Campbell (aka Little Nell, from The Rocky Horror Film Show) and Joanne Whalley announced briefly as groupies. Seeing this at a midnight showing on the big screen with Dolby Stereo was 1 of the virtually astounding cinematic experiences I've ever had!
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A mad descent into an alienated heed
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is a movie I heard and then much about before finally watching information technology. Reason existence, I never liked Floyd's music in the first identify. Something well-nigh devil worship that someone at school told me.
As time passed, I discovered "Night Side of the Moon", thanks in part to the engineering credits (I beloved everything Alan Parsons has done). The incredible workmanship of the album drew me closer to the grouping. And even then, "The Wall" was the last album I bought. Then, when the palatial DVD edition came out, I jumped at it.
What can I say? I watched the movie 3 times, and I couldn't nevertheless fully empathise it. I loved the animations and became intrigued by the inner motivations of the main character, although there were some parts of the movie I just couldn't make anything of it. Then I decided to watch the extra materials that came with the DVD, including the running commentary by Roger Waters. And it all made sense. This is one powerful flick, an interesting rebellion confronting stone stardom and its perks. It's completely unexpected, since we are listening to all of this from a rock star himself, which makes it all likewise real. The groupies, the drugs, the alienation, the feeling of being sick and fed up with it all.
This is not an uplifting movie by any ways. In fact, Roger Waters summed it up pretty well describing it equally "a sour ii hours". And the fact that Mr. Waters has never been able to fully recover from the loss of his father makes it fifty-fifty worse (near every Pinkish Floyd album - and a complete anthology, The Final Cutting - has a song about his death in WWII). Even with this cons, the film is a must encounter for the blitheness sequences. And Bob Geldof proves he can human activity.
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The Floyd'south opus ages well
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Just saw the film a few weeks ago for the first time on DVD. The pic looks proficient, sounds adept, and it'southward still belongings up non only with the passage of time but the passage of my own personal life. At that place are times when I pick upwards "The Wall" (the album), give it a listen and recollect to myself "god, what a cocky-absorbed person this is". But I realize in my better moments that Roger Waters was just letting us in on some of his deep personal issues. I used to not understand how politics and the whole fascist bending related to the rest of the film, but at this point it all makes sense to me. Waters is saying that the "walls" that we build up individually in our lives to protect ourselves and separate ourselves from others are only miniature versions of the political and social walls congenital up by people who rule over others through fear and intimidation.
On a technical level, only the scenes which integrate animation with alive action have anile somewhat poorly. The picture still has a striking and unique visual style, even after all these years of MTV that have followed.
Geldorf is sufficient as "Pink", though he doesn't get many lines or much to do except sit in that room.
All in all, a great film for Floyd fans but information technology might leave some non fans scratching their heads, considering it's a film y'all have to encounter a few times and remember about if you really want to "get" it. I know this film was panned by a lot of critics and too a lot of them said the flick'southward stance was insulting to the Floyd's core audience. I couldn't disagree more, I retrieve the Floyd never made the mistake of under-estimating their audience's intelligence and that they were hither making a personal statement not just about their own lives (primarily Waters' and Barrett's) but about the changes in how they interact with their fans.
I concord though with Waters' comments on the documentary -- the film's bully weakness is that information technology lacks humor, fifty-fifty the biting or negative humour of Floyd songs similar "Have a Cigar". I think maybe doing function of the movie in a less documentary style, specially "Young Lust" would have helped here.
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Fascinating only And so depressing!
Pink Floyd released the anthology "The Wall" in (I believe) 1979. It was a huge hit with high school and higher kids--particularly the vocal "Another Brick in the Wall Part two" with the "we don't demand no pedagogy" line. It was a concept anthology about breach which totally escaped most kids--they merely liked it considering of the loud music.
Alan Parker fabricated this film version a few years afterwards. In it he follows the mental disintegration of a rock star named Pink (Bob Geldof). We meet his whole life--his childhood, having an unnatural affection for his mom, his failed matrimony, his drug abuse, his feelings of beingness all solitary...and Pink completely explodes.
I saw it opening dark in Boston--I HATED it! The stereo sound blasted my ears out and the moving-picture show keeps hitting you lot with morbid images of decease, sexual practice and some truly disturbing animation paired with Pink Floyd's ear-splitting music. Critics hated it likewise--they didn't review it seriously and only acted similar information technology was a MTV movie video (!!!!) It died over here in America.
Seeing it years later I realized I was totally wrong. I was prepare this time for the non-end depressing imagery and was admittedly fascinated. This movie has a lot to say nearly social club, education and war. It's not an like shooting fish in a barrel motion-picture show to lookout (information technology got a R rating dorsum then--it would easily become an NC-17 today) and it will go out yous incredibly depressed. Still it'south fascinating to watch. Only one small-scale complaint--they use some of the same imagery Fashion too many times.
I'chiliad only giving it a nine because it's such a downer.
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A mad merging of live action, animation, and music.
You don't watch The Wall, you're absorbed into it. The music of Pink Floyd is fused together with Alan Parker'due south hit images and Gerald Scarfe's brilliant animation. As Pink slowly descends into madness, we are given a first hand expect at what has brought him to this betoken. The loss of his male parent, his relationship with his mother and wife, the teachers at the public school he attended and the burdens of stone stardom, all fit together to class his wall, that volition eventually isolate him from order. Once inside his wall, Pink goes through some changes and eventually puts himself on trial. Scarfe'due south hallucinatory blitheness brings to life many songs from the album and gives the motion-picture show a feel unlike whatsoever other. Parker directs the live activity with burn down. 1 of the best sequences in the film is in the beginning. Every bit the housekeeper fiddles with Pinkish's door, we see in his mind a door locked with a concatenation motility slightly. And so, when the door opens and is stopped by the concatenation, the doors in Pink's mind fly open and thousands of fans rush in. Then, Parker cuts to soldiers charging over beachheads as explosions scorch the land. All of this is prepare to In The Flesh, the outset runway off of the album. It'due south hard to talk well-nigh The Wall, in this forum. The Wall is a film that needs to be seen, heard and absorbed in society to understand information technology.
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Self indulgent nonsense
As big a misfire as The Who's Tommy movie, The Wall is a xc minute rock video masquerading equally profound art. Perfectly reflecting the orphic personality of Floyd'south Roger Waters, we are supposed to feel dreadfully sorry for the terrible burden bandage upon stone star Pinkish, played in heated overdrive by Bob Geldof, another guy with an inflated caput. In that location's tons of overbaked symbolism throughout the flick: ooo, schoolchildren going into a meatgrinder! rock concerts as Nazi rallies! How DID they come up with this clever stuff? Even Gerald Scarfe's animated sequences are a disaster.
Roger Waters needs to get over himself. The Pink Floyd were the ultimate reclusive stone band of the 70s, their increasingly pompous records only building college the edifice that Waters wants us to believe is so burdensome. The Wall is likewise filled with pathetic victimology: it'south my male parent's fault! the headmaster did it to me! my mother smothered me! the government is bad! One could fifty-fifty make the case that Roger is jealous of his onetime chum Syd Barrett, who just turned on, tuned in and dropped out to avoid the oh then heavy curtain that Waters now wears.
At that place are two or 3 decent David Gilmour songs in this flick. That's most the all-time thing that tin can exist said about Pink Floyd The Wall.
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must for Pink Floyd fans
Pink (Bob Geldof) is a rock star getting more than and more than isolated. His male parent died in WWII. He suffered in an oppressive British schoolhouse system. With each problem, he adds some other brick in a wall until he finally breaks down the wall.
This is more similar an experimental moving picture with images of WWII war, fascist icons, and rebellious youth. There are memorable scenes of the schoolhouse factory organisation. The WWII scenes are less compelling since it's all been washed. In that location is a lot of repetition which does elevate the pacing. In that location are great private sections coupled with iconic Pink Floyd songs. This is a must for Pinkish Floyd fans and probably for any rock music fans.
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Terrific Album, Practiced Moving-picture show
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
*** (out of 4)
Pink Floyd's landmark album "The Wall" is without a question ane of the greatest e'er created every bit it'due south two discs perfectly capture an atmosphere of paranoia and madness that not likewise many if any others accept ever done. When it came fourth dimension to turn the album into a picture, I don't think the end result was as dandy simply at that place'due south still quite a flake to admire in this Alan Parker film. The film centers on rock star Pink (Bob Geldof) who is losing a battle with his own paranoid mind where through flashbacks we see the loss of his father, his human relationship with his mother and everything leading up to him being alone in a hotel room. Pink FLOYD: THE WALL isn't a complete success but at the same time you lot actually have to respect Roger Waters and manager Parker for doing as well as they did. For starters, this could have just been one music video after another only both men went the actress mile to make sure there was some sort of structure going on with the story. There are then many now legendary images that one is rather amazed that and then much groovy footage was able to come out of this thing. There's the terrific WWII footage but besides the scenes in the hotel room and peculiarly a sequence there where Pinkish simply rips the room autonomously. The fashion the slow movement is used helps build up the atmosphere just we besides have some terrific animated sequences that are perfectly used and quite artistic. The album itself was i great song later on another and for the most part they're transfered over to the big screen quite well. The nigh popular song on the anthology is without question "Another Brick in the Wall Part two" and it'southward likewise the highlight here. I'm sure quite a few people have lit up a joint during this song and the video here but even without the grass the matter is quite effective. "Immature Lust" has always been one of my favorites and the sexuality of the vocal certainly comes out here. Other staples like "Hey Y'all" and "Comfortably Numb" are too well handled but and so are other tracks similar "The Happiest Days of Our Lives." In that location'southward no question that the music is simply right for our ears and the visuals just right for our eyes but I do call back the film starts to lose a little every bit information technology goes on. After a while the flick starts to get a tad bit dry but there's still no question that information technology's an important moving-picture show and one that does the album justice.
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The Catatonic Process of Paranoia and Madness
Pink Floyd (Bob Geldof) is a rock star in a catatonic state of paranoia and madness, building a wall betwixt the world in his mind and the real world. Through flashbacks, the viewer acknowledges his madness process, started in his childhood with the loss of his male parent in the World War Two. The privation of a father, the instruction in a repressive English school and the creation given by his female parent contribute to his insanity, culminating with the apply of drugs to present the shows in a tour and the infidelity of his wife. After this process, he becomes a violent dictator. This depressive film joins the music of my favorite progressive music band with the work of one of my favorite directors, Alan Parker. 'Midnight Express' is probably among my xx favorite movies always. This manager has a keen experience with musicals in films like 'Fame', 'The Commitments' and 'Evita'. 'Pink Floyd The Wall' has very touching scenes, like when the piddling Pinky gives his hand and follows the begetter of another kid; has great moments, like in the sequence beginning with an hawkeye and ending with blood flowing to a gutter and then to a sewer; has lots of paranoia. It is visually wonderful with a magnificent soundtrack. My vote is ten.
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