If you can find it, you'll be going for your remote to slow-mo these sequences and really go, "whooooah." The animation sequences by Gerald Scarfe are some of the best psychedelic visuals I've seen, and they look even better here. Otherwise, everything looked great, much better than I'd ever seen it before. My only qualm was that hi-contrast edges, like white objects on a black background or vice versa, were pretty shimmery. At other times, though, everything comes together- music, images, and theme- to really make a stoner go "whooooah." 7 out of 10įor the most part, everything on this new transfer looks great. The words "overblown" and "pompous" often came to mind. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters wrote the screenplay and all the songs in the movie, and at times his lyrics are just way too heavyhanded to bear.
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All of this inner turmoil, in the end, is what allows him to be creative.Īnd, there's lots of psychedelic animation.Ĭertainly at times this movie is hard to watch. So Pink's built a wall (get it? A wall) around his emotions, not allowing anyone to see the "real him." As a result, he's begun to hate the kids who adore him and his music and is beginning to think himself some kind of fascist dictator. His father died in the war so Pink never knew him, and his mother smothered him but abandoned him when he got sick. It relies on the music of Pink Floyd and the visuals of Alan Parker to take us through the troubled life of Pink (Bob Geldof), a rock star who's got issues. Whenever I criticized the movie, though, everyone would tell me that I needed to be stoned to really "get it." Now, ten years later, I get it, thanks in part to Columbia's new DVD release of The Wall.ĭefinitely one of the all-time classic stoner movies, Pink Floyd: The Wall is a story told without dialogue. Everybody would get good and high and watch the movie, loving every minute of it, while I sat there not high and wondering why they liked this stupid, disjointed, nonsensical thing. I thought, at the time, that it was "wrong."Īnyway, on the weekends when somebody's parents went out of town and everybody got together for a party in the unsupervised house, as often as not the evening would include a screening of Pink Floyd: The Wall. Most of my buddies enjoyed the marijuana and the acid and the mushrooms on a semi-regular basis, but I didn't. The issues we as a society face now are far more dangerous to personal freedoms than when it was first released.When I was in high school, I was one of the only people in my social circle who refused to get stoned. In fact, I think that this film, and therefore the message behind the music, is MORE important today. We have movements that preach rigid conformity and hate, we have religions that have lost the message of caring and we have schools that only want to turn out mindless corporate robots. We have huge segments of alienated people, we have bigotry and hate, and we have governments which operate in secret. The issues today may be different from those of the late 70's, but, the sentiment and the dangers are the same. Thatcher to the Orwellian fascist world of 1984.) But, as much as I and other members of my generation can relate to this film, does it have a message for today's youth. The film was made when the fears expressed in the novel 1984 were still a threat, (as an aside, while the film was being made in England there was a political campaign comparing the then conservative government of M.
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The film, by blending the original music plus skilful re-mixes and new tracks tells a simple story, but the imagery used is dark and disturbing and relates to the social issues of the time.
But the angst and societal issues that the album addresses only seem aged now. Pink Floyd's The Wall is arguably the best `rock opera' ever. A film made in the 80's for children of the 60's.
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