Some people have told me that they didn't like this movie because they didn't understand it. Well, the first time I saw it, I understood it perfectly. This movie is excellent, is my favorite movie. Pink Floyd made an excellent work here. The movie is about a non-existent singer called Pink Floyd (as the real band). In the beginning, it shows Pink in his hotel, and then it comes to Pink's childhood. It shows Pink as a child and his mother, and how he loved her. After this, it shows Pink's terrible life at school. In the school "there were certain teachers who would harm the children anyway they could". With this life and the fact that the father died in World War II, it starts to make Pink insane. He, in his mind, starts to imagine things, and to create "his own world". This "world" is, in some way, the real world, but represented in another way. In this world, the faces of the children are masks, meaning that the teachers don't let the children see what is happening really, but hiding everything, and doing everything as the teachers want. In his imagination, Pink burns the school with other children, perfectly singing "We don't need no education...". But nothing really happens, is just in his mind. At the beginning, the links between the past, far-away past and present are very present. But later it stays in the present, and it shows Pink's life, with his wife. Because of this sad childhood, Pink is really depressive. So his wife goes with another man. And this is just "another brick in the wall". The wall is what Pink was creating since he was a child, that is, his own world, in his mind. In various parts of the movie we hear "this is just another brick in the wall", that is, another reason for Pink to continue doing the wall. After his wife leaves him, Pink goes with another woman, because he "needs a dirty woman". But this is just to prove that his wife's choice doesn't hurt him, because he's going with another woman. But he really doesn't do anything with her. Instead of that, he destroys his apartment. That's how the wall works. Everything after that are just bricks in the wall. And then, in fact, it shows a wall. This movie has various representations and we have to interpret it. That wall, completed, represents that Pink's world is complete in his mind. Now he just has to use it. Pink's life is confusing after this. It shows again links to the past, and then returning to the present. It all ends when Pink's manager discovers him drugged, and he takes him to the hospital. But in his way, Pink, in his wall, imagines that he has transformed in someone like Hitler. And that's how the wall works. The Hitler group, instead of be called "Nazi", are called "Hammer", but are with the same colors. Then he goes everywhere with this group, and is really a Nazi group, following "the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews". But this is just in his mind, nothing of that is really happening. But then he realizes that everything's wrong, that he wants a break of the wall. What is happening really is, maybe, that he's in the hospital (after all the drugs that he has as we see before). How he says that he wants a break? In this way: before it was mentioned that he has "a little black book with his poems in" (also seen in his school). Well, in his mind, he's reading a poem (that is really a Pink Floyd's song), called Stop, and he says, "I wanna go home, take of this uniform and leave the show... I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know, have I been guilty all this time...?". Guilty of making all that stuff like Hitler, in his mind. In the wall, this is good, but in the real world, this is bad. So he is not sure that what he's doing. Really, he's saying "What I do, is good or bad?". But because he has entered the wall, and now he has put a doubt about it, he goes into trial. In the trial, he's found guilty. And he's expelled of the wall. What is really happening? Pink's world is over. Pink has died (probably in the hospital), and this is confirmed by his last scream (when the wall explodes). The last scene shows children picking some stuff from the ground. That is how the world will end. A great movie. If you haven't seen it, see it now. The album is also great. Some tracks have changed. The movie is incredible-good-narrated with Pink Floyd's songs.
Review of Pink Floyd: The Wall
