Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)

Pink Floyd - The Wall
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Medium level violence, Medium level sex scenes, Low level coarse language

Director: Alan Parker
Actor: Pink Floyd

The story of The Wall is told simply with the music of Pink Floyd, images and natural effects. There is no conventional dialogue to progress the narrative. Our story is about Pink, a Rock and Roll performer, who sits locked in a hotel room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much dope, too much applause: a burned out case. On the TV, an all too familiar war film flickers on the screen. We shuffle time and place, reality and nightmare as we venture into Pink's painful memories, each one a "brick" in the wall he has gradually built around his feelings. Slowly he withdraws from the real world and slips further into his nightmare as he imagines himself as unfeeling demagogue, for whom all that is left is the demonstration of power over his unthinking audience, the culmination of the odious excess of his own world and the world around him. His internal self trial follows, as the witnesses of his past life, the very people who have contributed to the building of the wall, come forward and testify against him.

DVD
Status: LongWait
Run time: 99mins
Origin: UNITED KINGDOM
Aspect Ratio:

Member Reviews (7)

7 Member Reviews
George P.
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I'm not sure how they have come to the conclusion that if you like this film, then you might like dumb and dumber!
Posted Friday, 13 November 2009 See my other reviews
Mark T.
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Absolute rubbish. Don't bother with this one. If you really enjoyed the album, then you may enjoy it.
Posted Sunday, 29 March 2009 See my other reviews
Earth.W
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Pink Floyd's, The Wall album is a classic album and the movie length video version is also a classic. The animations are fantastic as is the endless trail of symbols throughout. The emotional state of singer is running high. As the synopsis says, too much drugs and stardom and such however, the real issue here is the star's childhood luggage pushing itself to centre stage as all the drugs and alcohol and other lifestyles is no longer able to stop his childhood dramas from taking over, demanding to be dealt with instead of drowned in a pool of wrongful living.
Posted Friday, 9 January 2009 See my other reviews
Steve
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After several years, I finally got to watch this much-proclaimed film but was very disappointed with it. It might have been radical and cutting edge in its time, but I found it excessively violent and disturbing - just a good promo for why taking 'acid' is a less than clever idea. There is very little music in it so don't bother with the movie if you're after a musical work - this is primarily visual (some of the animation is excellent).
Posted Sunday, 22 June 2008 See my other reviews
c0utta
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A brilliant collage of images - actually, it's a bit disturbing at times. Extra features include "Another Brick In The Wall" video clip, "Hey You" video clip (which was banned for a while) and some excellent commentary
Posted Tuesday, 21 February 2006 See my other reviews
Craig Badcock
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Posted Tuesday, 22 February 2005 See my other reviews
Andrea Caplice
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Posted Monday, 31 January 2005 See my other reviews