Review of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) by Jordan P — 08 Dec 2018

So, everything in this film is told at different points, but essentially the main character, Pink, grew up without a father figure, whenever he tried to show love and creativity it was shoved away and made fun of, so he built an emotional wall around himself.

He grows up, but has so blocked out his feelings that he can't express them to his wife (and he also seems to be heavily addicted to drugs, though these aren't expressly seen other than what may be some hash) so she looks for emotional comfort elsewhere.

He starts to grow so much hatred within himself that he envisions a group of hate that can destroy everything, very similar to the Nazis, and maybe an ode to the theory of how if Hitler had been encouraged to be an artist he never would have been the mass murderer we know him as.

Finally at the end he is writing a song, and at this point he is ordered, perhaps by himself, to tear the wall down, which is what the artist often does when they turn to songwriting. In fact, the song Pages by Three Doors Down discusses this pretty well.

Overall, the movie was by no means dull and was visually very interesting, though the graphics were much too sexualized and hallucinogenic for my taste. Also, there are a lot of genital monsters in the film, which is kinda weird.

Interesting movie, and I don't think it's bad, but I probably won't be watching it again.