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Good concept, poorly executed.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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

The Wall is an amazing in depth album about how aspects of his life leads to creating a social barrier between himself and the rest of the world. Someone that doesn't know much about the album would find it very difficult to follow along as there is some seriously powerful psychedelic sequences, but if you can understand them then the movie should be very enjoyable. In my own opinion Pink Floyd are my favorite band with the only close runner up being David Bowie and I'm not one of those guys that thinks "The 80's music is better than everything every made" however Pink Floyd as a fact are one of the greatest bands ever and the film is a great representative of their musical talents. I give it a 10 because the film is so unique that I haven't seen anything like it and the messages behind it are extremely powerful, I love the way they reference previous albums and one in the future.

"We don't need no education.......We don't need no thought-control.".... So, proclaims the lyrics of songwriter, Roger Waters.Well, if Waters really thinks we don't need these things, then I'd like to know what the heck this joker thinks we 'do' need. This movie, nor the rest of Waters' lyrics give me any clue.I don't know why Waters is belly-aching so much about education and thought-control. It looks like he did pretty well by them. He's rich. He's famous. Does anyone realistically believe that if Waters didn't have any education and/or if he wasn't subjected to some form of thought-control that he would be in the same boat that he is right now!!?? I seriously doubt it. But who knows.And speaking about 'education' & 'thought-control'.....The way I look at it, Waters' lyrics and music are just that. His words are, in a sense, a type of (informal) education and, along with his lyrics, the hypnotic effect of some of his music could, in its own way, induce some honest-to-goodness thought-control. Well, it could. At least I think so.Uh.....I know this really isn't turning into much of a movie review (I'll get to that business soon enough. I promise), but before I veer off this tangent, I've got one more thing to say about another segment of Waters' lyrics."When we were kids and went to school there were 'certain' teachers who would hurt the kids in any way they could." Well, I don't know about where Waters went to school, but where I was educated (middle-class, suburbia) it wasn't so much the teachers (yeah, there were some real arseholes) that would hurt the kids in any way, it was 'the other kids' who were putting each other thru' pure hell in any way they could. I ain't joking.All the relentless teasing, and betrayals, and pushing, and shoving, and bullying (on & on, year after year) that went on at my schools was enough to turn any sensitive, little tyke into a professional wall-builder in no time at all. The biggest bricks for his or her wall would come directly from their classmates, not from their ass-wipe instructors. (No Good! Do It Again!!) Anyway, enough of that, onto my movie review. I'll make it short and sweet.I don't think anyone would argue that bringing 'The Wall' to the big screen was an incredible undertaking for any director, even Alan Parker. I certainly give Parker and his film crew a lot of credit for their efforts to fuse dynamite-imagery with explosive rock music. This dazzlingly choreographed combination works surprisingly well most of the time.But, personally, I think Parker should have left 'The Wall' alone. He surely could have presented us with something just as impressive without the confines of Waters' cynical lyrics and the audiences' preconceived idea of how everything should have appeared thru' their mind's eye.Oh,well......"I have become comfortably numb!"

"Pink Floyd: The Wall" is a celebration of spot-on directing, effective animation, and chilling yet powerful imagery. And it is one of the few musicals whose primary source of story-telling is the soundtrack. The main character is a rock star named Pink who has locked himself in his hotel room and is left to his own devices. Which in this case is his mind. And what we find down there when watching this movie, is pure insanity. Getting darker and darker as we go deeper and deeper into his head. He imagines his past and how it could have been different. For better or for worse. The film is brilliantly well done, and deserves a spot on any of my lists for the greatest musical of all time.