Review of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) by Ryan M — 04 Nov 2012

I'd just listened to Pink Floyd's The Wall for the first time a month ago or so. It completely blew me away and became an instant favorite; a complete sensory assault of passionate emotion, anger, and musical anarchy.

Pink Floyd The Wall, directed by Alan Parker, attempts to bring Roger Waters' classic rock opera vision to the big screen and successfully does so. While the highlights are the more surrealistic images and the animated sequences, the musical scenes are also worth noting if only for the fact that almost all of them perfectly capture the emotional resonance of the music listened to on its own.

If I had to choose, I'd listen to The Wall in the context of the album rather than the movie, but this is a compelling visual companion.