Pink Floyd %E2%80%93 The Wall

Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 British liveactionanimated psychological horror musical film directed by Alan Parker with animated scenes by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and is based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album of the same name. The film centers around a confined rocker named Floyd Pink Pinkerton, who after being driven into insanity by the death of his father and many depressive moments, constructs a metaphorical and sometimes physical wall to be protected from the world and emotional situations around him when this coping mechanism backfires he demands himself free. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters.

Pink, the protagonist, is a rock star, one of several reasons behind his apparent depressive and detached emotional state. He is first seen in an unkempt hotel room, motionless and expressionless, watching television. The opening music is the Vera Lynn recording of The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot. It is revealed that Pinks father, a British soldier, was killed in action while defending the Anzio bridgehead during World War II, in Pinks infancy.In a flashback, Pink is a young English boy growing up in the early 1950s. Throughout his childhood, Pink longs for a father figure. He discovers a scroll from kind old King George and other relics from his fathers military service and death. At school, he is humiliated for writing poems in class the poem being Pink Floyds Money. After the teacher reads the poem out loud, Another Brick in the Wall Partis played, and children are shown in a surrealistically oppressive school system, falling into a meat grinder. The children then rise in rebellion and destroy the school, carrying the Teacher away to an unknown fate. Pink is also negatively affected by his overprotective mother. Such traumatic experiences are represented as bricks in the metaphorical wall he constructs around himself that divides him from society. ........

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