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By Tfiomas Redwine
"Pink Floyd - The Wall.':
Hearing these words, the first thing many
people think about is the chart-busting 1979
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The album and the single "Another Brick in
the Wall, Part Two" immediately took hold
of the pop charts and kept hold long enough
to obtain platinum status five times over.
Now, there is the movie to consider.
I HAVE seen "The Wall" twice to get a
better understanding of the movie. It is the
most complicated, emotional film of 1982.
"The Wall" rolls destruction, love, hate, sex
and mind-altering rock music over the
viewer, leaving mm snen-snocKea ana
dazed. I was physically and emotionally
exhausted at the end of the movie.
The film and the album concern Pink, a
rock star who has alienated himself from
humanity with drugs, money and a mental
"wall" that blocks out anyone trying to get
in.
In a very complicated series of flashbacks,
flashes forward and slices of other
lives that interact with Pink's, the viewer
literally experiences Pink's past.
Pink's father is killed while commanding
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a squadron of troops holding the Anzio
bridgehead in World War II, when Pink is
just a baby. Ten minutes into the film, the
viewer sees 100 men lose their lives in
battle. Pink's mother soon over
compensates for the missing father figure,
smothering the child to protect him from
life.
BUT LIFE is inescapable. Young Pink is
spurned at the playground and later
ridiculed by his teacher at school.
Fan: will be pleased to know that
"Anoti ?r Brick in the Wall, Part Two" is
one ot .he best sequences in the film. The
viewer sees nice, ordinary British
schoolchildren turned into puppets.
ii is in scnooi mai young nnK, porirayea
by Kevin McKeon, starts to construct The
Wall in order to protect himself from the
pain of everyday life.
Finally, the older Pink (brilliantly
brought to life by Bob Geldof, the Boomtown
Rats' lead singer in his first screen role)
realizes that The Wall may be his undoing.
See "Pink," page 12
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