FILM BLOG: ’PINK FLOYD - THE WALL’ A FRACTURED, CRUMBLING SOUL
What happens when you mix depression with surrealism, added with some dabs of violence and gore, all baked in with rock? Well, you’d get the very unique, very eccentric, one hell of a watch, Pink Floyd – The Wall.
The movie is about a rock star named Pink (Bob Geldof), whom had suffered through a great deal of depression from his childhood days. Losing his father in war and having a creatively-restricting professor doesn’t really add up to a really happy childhood. And as his luck has it, the problems don’t really end there and continued to haunt him as his very walls.
The movie had a lot of symbolisms and also a lot of flashbacks, so I’d suggest that you watch it without much distractions to keep you from getting lost. With time going back and forth, from childhood to adulthood, some would really get confused on what’s going on. Nevertheless, this symbolisms and awesome portrayals with the use of animation, really speaks deeper. Hitting the basis of the educational system, which actually is still felt up till today, and also betrayal and sexuality. Surreal occurrences greatly emphasized in the film blends in nicely with his emotional state of mind. The animations are like those of its time, but with a bit more adulty and suggestive visuals.
There is also quite a deal of violence in the film, and I mean the type of violence that could make you cringe. The film has physical harm which are very much more felt rather than those overly exaggerated deaths in films like Final Destination. There is also that creepy mood in the film, especially when the people go back to wearing their distorted masks and Pink goes back to remembering the different horrors he’d faced.
The ending sews together every event that occurred and lets the viewers actually get what is happening throughout the whole sequence. With the amount of crazy stuff going on all at the same time, there’s some times which would really get you thinking, “Wait, what’s going on now? What just happened?”
All in all, go ahead and watch the film if you want something more on the weird side of the plate or if you want cool rock music going on the whole playtime. The film is not for everyone, especially to those who don’t want to exceed their set amount of eccentricity meter, people below the age of 18, people that don’t wanna go cringe in realistically harmful moments, and of course, those who want to watch it with the whole family.