Se debe mencionar antes que la pelcula tiene muchas cosas que analizar, la visin que tiene

Pink Floyd de su familia depende mucho del tipo de rol que cumple cada uno de estos, que de
alguna manera se entrelazan para formar en l una realidad totalmente paralela a la de los
dems.
Las situaciones traumticas que tiene a lo largo de su vida van haciendo que se distancie un
poco de los dems y de la sociedad lo cual de alguna manera hace que l vea las cosas
distintas y se impone de cierto modo al capitalismo, la opresin, la guerra, la dificultad de
comunicacin, al tipo de profesores y a la alineacin del ser humano como un ente sin sentido,
que es producto de un sistema muy perverso.
Se deben tener todos estos puntos claros antes de analizar la visin de Pink y entender el
porqu de su delirio.

Anlisis de la visin de Pink de la Funcin Materna

Podemos observar que existe en la pelcula una madre muy apegada a Pink, que no le deja ser
libre, la cual esta siempre protegindole, y de alguna manera eso se puede observar al
comienzo cuando la seora de la limpieza quiere limpiar el cuarto de l, y a l le viene el
recuerdo de las cadenas y es para mi, una forma de mostrar que su madre nunca le dejo ser
libre y le mantuvo encerrado en su mundo. Y es como que quiere salir pero no puede, y lo
manifiesta al momento que esta en la piscina y se siente ahogado, asfixiado, y no puede salir.
Su madre al ser muy cortante lo mantuvo encerrado en le deseo de ella y esto hizo que Pink se
mantenga solo e infeliz. Se puede observar lo mismo en el episodio de la iglesia, cuando el
deseo de su madre era tramitar la perdida de su esposo y extiende este deseo a Pink para que
l tramite la perdida de su madre no la de l ya que su padre nunca estuvo ah as que no tena
nada que tramitar. Y en esta escena se puede observar eso, Pink jugando con un avin y
recordando que su padre le haba abandonado.

De alguna manera se observa que su madre no le pone la atencin necesaria ni le menciona el

porque los dems nios tienen un padre y el se da cuenta de esto por si mismo cuando esta en
el parque. Se observa tambin un nio muy maduro para su edad y es como que la madre y su
situacin le hicieron crecer demasiado pronto y se observa tambin este punto en la escena
que entra a la casa y lee el peridico y el sabe que no hay nadie ah porque su madre no pudo
nunca tomar esa posicin de padre. Se debe mencionar tambin como importante que l
encuentra esta carta y hace que el desenvolvimiento de l no sea el mismo ya que el debe
tomar la posicin del padre para actuar como soporte mental para su madre; siguiendo un poco
este punto mas tarde se ve como una paloma blanca es despedazada por un pjaro negro de
guerra y se observa como que lo bueno de Pinky se destruye y va a salir lo malo de l, aunque
al final la inocencia y lo bueno siempre prevalecen.
Se debe tener en cuenta que su madre es demasiado sobre protectora con Pinky y de alguna
manera l al momento de casarse quiere sentirse protegido con su esposa de la misma manera
que lo hizo su madre. El punto es que su madre es el ladrillo que esta dentro de l y no le deja
ver la realidad como es y de ah los problemas tambin con su esposa; ya que su madre al ser
una persona muy cortante le ha privado de muchas cosas y l se siente sin ganas de estar con
su esposa es por eso que ella le engaa, ya que l no puede salir del deseo de su madre. Ya
que para l su madre es la nica no existe nadie ms. Adems de ser sobre protectora est de
alguna manera sobre compensando el hecho de la perdida de su esposo con su hijo y es
interesante como la msica acompaa este momento en que Pinky se da cuenta de que su
madre es la que le priva muchas cosas.

Me parece interesante cuando Pink esta sentado en el piano y su esposa trata de llamar la
atencin y cuando lo hace es como que el ya sabe que l no es nadie sin su madre y de alguna
eso mismo es lo que quiere su madre, ya que el deseo de ella es ser la nica y es la nica al
momento en que desecha a la mujerzuela. Al estar Pinky demasiado ligado a su mama busca y
en las canciones se observa que siempre esta buscando la opinin y aprobacin de su madre
para con las mujeres y me parece excelente la actuacin de Bob Geldof al acurrucarse como
un bebe que nos muestra el vinculo maternal que tiene con la madre.

La escena de la flor puede resumir el significado de lo que siente Pinky y es a su vez aqu en
donde se forma el delirio, cuando el ha dado todo por esa persona pensando en que seria
igual, sta reacciona diferente y le destroza al momento en que ella le engaa y el se siente
solo y es en esa soledad donde brota la psicosis.

Anlisis de la visin de Pink de la Funcin Paterna

Al comienzo de la pelcula Pink nos dice que el lleva una mascara y tiene odio frente al publico
y nos menciona que para poder entenderle el debe quitarse la mascara y bueno en primer lugar
se debe mencionar que a esto existe un punto importante, la guerra le afecta y la muerte de su
padre hace que no pueda contar con nadie como lo dije antes l se encuentra en el deseo de la
madre y como no tiene con quien expresarse mantiene un disfraz, pero l se lo debe sacar para
poder dar a conocer como es l por dentro, quitarse esa mascara y odiar a los dems, solo as
va a poder desquitarse y llegar a una catarsis, convirtindose en lo que antes odiaba. Y as la
vida de Pink entra en una depresin y tristeza en la que tendr por toda su vida.
Pinky en el parque mira la felicidad de otros nios y l quiere estar como ellos, al no tener
padre le pregunta aun seor si le podra subir y cuando el hombre lo hace, la alegra en la cara
de Pink puede verse claramente; el ha encontrado una figura paterna, la cual es lo que le hace
falta y aqu vemos que es la primera vez que Pink realmente se da cuenta que no tiene padre,
una realidad que lo deja con un sentimiento de vaco y duda, aunque creo que de alguna
manera l es muy fuerte de carcter y mas tarde se lo ve leyendo el peridico y con sus
facciones se evidencia que esta tomando ya una responsabilidad de adulto, de padre.

A mi parecer el momento en que sabe que debe tomar esta responsabilidad es cuando
encuentra la carta en un estuche lleno de recuerdos, esta carta habla de la muerte de su padre
y en Pinky se observa que hay mucha amargura hacia el gobierno por quitarle a su padre. Y se
lo representa tambin en las canciones y a medida que suena la cancin, Pink se viste con la
ropa de guerra de su padre y, mientras l se mira en el espejo, hay un rpido corte del joven
Pink en el uniforme y que da la apariencia de 2 cosas, la primera que esta representndose
como el joven que tiene que meterse en un sistema (as no quiera l) de irse a la guerra y
tomar esa responsabilidad por la patria y la otra es la de la que ya se hablo antes, tomar una
figura del padre, de responsabilidad hacia consigo mismo y hacia con su madre. Esta escena
es para m como si mostrara la conexin entre padre e hijo, y algo que perdurar para siempre.

La madre al perder al papa de Pinky en la guerra desplaza los sentimientos de amor hacia su
hijo y de alguna manera Pinky se convierte en el soporte mental para su madre, pero a la final
l sabe que esta ligado mucho a su madre y es por eso tambin que no puede tramitar el duelo
de su padre cuando muri porque su padre nunca estuvo ah, l nunca le conoci, el pobre
Pinky tramita el duelo de su madre.
Me parece excelente la parte en que Pinky se frota los brazos al ver la escena del perro negro y
es como que el perro tiene un amo y el amo le esta cuidando y acariciando pero a l nadie le
cuida y se frota de una manera intensa en la cual l quiere sentir el frote de su padre pero no lo
tiene y mas tarde se observa que l lo busca en la llegada de los militares que bajan del tren y
no lo encuentra ya que el tiene la ilusin de que su padre todava este vivo, mas tarde con la
cancin que todos cantan a mi parecer quiere dar cuenta de que todos los soldados que van a
la guerra deben ser trados porque los hijos no podran vivir sin la presencia de su padre.

Otro punto importante es que Pinky sabe que todos tenemos que morir tal como lo hizo su
padre, pero a mi parecer es como si l en primer lugar en su delirio no quiere y esto de estar
viendo la televisin es como que se hiciera la pregunta, Porque nadie hace nada?, ya que se
da cuenta que el sistema esta diseado para que la gente no pueda pensar y que siga
diferentes tipos de esquemas, de esta manera Pinky (que representa a Roger Waters) en su
catarsis quiere que la gente sepa como es l y lo que vivi y es por eso que comienza a odiar a
las personas y les grita en el concierto, porque para l no son hacen nada para cambiar el
sistema en el que todos estamos inmersos. Y lo que hace es convertirse en lo que odiaba y
para mi esa es su forma de catarsis.

Anlisis de la visin de Pink que tiene de la Mujer

Al ser el y haberse quedado varado en el deseo de su madre l busca de alguna manera

encontrar una mujer igual a su madre, y es por eso de sus actitudes, ahora hay algo que no
entiendo, si l busca una mujer igual a su madre porque no le da el placer y la atencin que
ella busca antes que le engae?, y juntos podran ayudarse y ella podra hacerle saber que no
es como su madre, tal vez con terapia, pero es como que Pinky no quiere cambiar y ni siquiera
le presta atencin y en muchas veces se observa esto. En el cual l mismo se va creando un
muro de aislamiento. Ahora podra ser tambin que l, al estar varado en el deseo de su madre
no importa con que mujer este, nunca va a poder salir porque no hubo padre que haga el corte
entre el deseo y la ley, y l no podra desear.
Al estar en el deseo de la madre el busca la misma seguridad y proteccin en su mujer y se
desvanece cuando le engaa, podra decirse si ella hubiera querido engaarle?, o es porque
ella necesita una hombre que siempre este a su lado?, a mi parecer esto si hubiera pasado ya
que Pinky por si solo no puede salir de su encierro, se podra mencionar que su madre es el
ladrillo que esta dentro de l y no le deja ver la realidad como es y de ah los problemas con su
esposa.
La traicin de su esposa hace que Pinky este en crisis y llegue al delirio, tambin hace ver que
l ya no confa mas en otras mujeres solo quiere a su madre, se observa cuando esta con la
mujerzuela que l busca en ella comprensin mientras que ella solo quiere estar con l, l sabe
que nadie nunca podr comprenderle como lo hizo su madre y es como dice la cancin el amor
se vuelve gris en el cual l ya no puede confiar en nadie mas y demuestra que l no soporta ser
como es l y es por eso que se evidencia que el rompe los vidrios y de alguna manera estalla
como una bomba hacia con l y con los dems.
Se puede observar que Pinky de alguna manera se siente con mucha ira hacia su esposa por
haberle dejado y se siente tan herido y rechazado con todas las mujeres y es por eso que ya no
va a confiar en ellas nunca ms. Existen 2 momentos en los cuales l como que les tiene miedo
a las mujeres, y les ve como inmensas, aplastantes, el primero es cuando esta bailando y el
segundo es cuando esta solo en su habitacin y se ve la sombra de una mujer (la cual es
inmensa) que se convierte en un monstruo y l se da cuenta de que huye, huye de ese
monstruo que le acecha.

La madre al final a ganado y se ha vuelto la nica para l al momento en que desecha a la

mujerzuela y bota a la esposa ya que no hay nadie mas que le haga sentir bien solo su madre.
Y es cuando el delirio se empieza a formar y mas tarde segn la cancin es cuando los ve a
todos como un ladrillo, rechazando a todos y es importante esto porque nos dice como que la
vida esta fuera de control y poco podemos hacer para cambiar. Se nota tambin en este delirio
que el da a notar que se dio cuenta que esta encerrado y aislado dentro de un muro sin salida.
Tambin da a notar cuando esta en el muro y quiere salir, de que el quiere ayuda, y es cuando
se da cuenta de que necesita de otros que le ayuden. Uno puede dar cuenta de que Pinky esta
entrando en la locura al momento en que construye en su cuarto con guitarras, cigarrillo y coca-
cola es como que se esta aislando mas del mundo y para mi convirtindose en un soldado mas
que lo debe hacer todo perfecto. Se observa la psicosis.

Existen muchas cosas mas para analizar ya afuera de la visin que el tiene sobre los dems.
Una de ellas es la escena de la rata en la que se ve el lado sensible de pinky y a su vez l
cuida a la rata para que no se muera y es una forma de mostrar y desplazar los sentimientos
que tiene ocultos hacia la rata. Otra cosa importante es que se muestra que l esta solo en el
cuarto al momento en que vienen los doctores y en la cancin es como que muestra que la
gente y personas que le rodean estn ah no para ayudarle sino para que simplemente salga al
concierto y toque. Y que de alguna manera la inyeccin que le ponen ese momento es como
para decirle que siempre va a ver una solucin pero as va a ser toda su vida.

La escena de los gusanos que le comen puede dar 2 interpretaciones, la primera que es un
nuevo comienzo en el que Pinky va a dejar la mascara y va a ser un nuevo renacimiento. La
segunda interpretacin puede ser que los gusanos le comen parea ser aceptado por la
sociedad y deja de ser como es l y se vuelve un sujeto que atrae a todos y piensa que todos le
aman. En este delirio l es el que va a dictaminar como se hacen las cosas.
Una pelcula de 1982 dirigida por el director britnico Alan Parker basada en el
lbum conceptual con el mismo nombre publicado en 1979.
El guin fue escrito por el vocalista/bajista de Pink Floyd, Roger Waters.
Una de las caractersticas resaltantes de la pelcula es la poca cantidad de
dilogos, pero esto no afecta el impacto de la misma, al contrario lo incrementa
y junto con las animaciones y la vida del personaje nos lleva a una impactante
experiencia, que en mi caso me dejo pensando por un largo tiempo sobre la
naturaleza de un individuo y como es que nuestros temores, la presin, la falta
de apoyo, y asuntos sociales llegan a encerrarnos en nuestra propia mente y
limitndonos con ciertas decisiones, alejndonos a veces de las personas y
llevndonos de la mano hasta un punto de explosin emocional, porque no me
dejarn mentir absolutamente todos hemos llegado a tener un cierto grado de
crisis.

Este largometraje maneja un argumento donde personaje principal Pink Floyd

(Bob Geldof), se asla dentro de su muro psicolgico y cada uno de los traumas
de su niez y sus conflictos existenciales, son los ladrillos que construyen el
muro y lo llevan a una desastrosa crisis nerviosa.

Pero Cules son esos traumas?

Primero observamos su tristeza causada por la muerte de su padre, quien

muri en la guerra durante su niez y a quien Pinky intenta reemplazar, sin
xito, con un hombre que se encuentra en un parque y cuida de su propio hijo.
La muerte del padre llev a que su madre lo sobre protegiera, como podemos
entender en Mother, donde una madre y su hijo conversan sobre ciertas cosas
donde el nio est indeciso y temeroso y la madre le contesta que lo
mantendr protegido, que no llore, pero que har que sus pesadillas se vuelvan
realidad, le heredar sus miedos y le ayudar a construir ese muro que lo
mantendr limitado.
Luego vemos a su esposa, el problema que se muestra en su presente, de
quien Pink espera sentirse protegido de la misma manera que con su madre,
pero ella no logra ser quien l espera y despus de que ella se siente rechazada
por l, lo engaa.
Pinky por la traicin que acaba de sufrir, estando de gira, busca una
mujerzuela, pero la situacin lo lleva a una locura violenta.
Al parecer las mujeres para nuestro protagonista resultan intimidantes,
considera que ellas por sutiles que parezcan le acordonan para lastimarlo.
Como problema social no solo enfocan los problemas blicos, sino que tambin
el ambiente que los maestros marcan en aquella poca, en la pelcula se ve
cmo es que Pinky sufre de la humillacin por parte de los maestros al ser
pequeo, como se desquitaban con los alumnos por sus propios problemas
personales.
De esto llega, rpidamente en la historia, la idea de que la educacin que
recibimos controla nuestra actitud y nuestro pensar, reprime y no deja superar
expectativas, nos hace tomar una de las mscaras predeterminadas y nos hace
caminar en fila, llegando a un final donde nos compactan como carne molida.
En la misma escena vemos como los estudiantes se rebelan y destruyen la
escuela, como un sueo que estuviera siendo realizado.

Nuestra desahuciada estrella de rock en su locura llega a lastimarse a l

mismo, y llega a alucinar con que se ha convertido en un lder fascista que
manipula a un grupo de personas a destruir, generar violencia y rebozarse en
descontrol.
Al final Pinky, dentro de su delirio, termina siendo juzgado por un trasero de
hombre que usa zapatillas de mujer quien determina que debe ser expulsado y
que el muro debe ser derribado y aunque no se mencione en la pelcula, llegu
a pensar que nuestro psicolgicamente trastornado personaje termina
suicidndose, pero el final claramente esta hecho para tener una interpretacin
personal.

Ahora me gustara
hablar sobre Gerald Scarfe, el ilustrador y caricaturista que plasmo tan
ingeniosamente conceptos tan confusos en forma de metforas.
Quien dira que personajes como un Maestro, la esposa, la Madre, rosa, y el
gusano, llegaran a tener tan impacto en una mente y ser uno de esos ladrillos,
que se sobrestimaron tanto hasta crear ese intimidante muro tan mencionado.

Un poco de las animaciones que aparecen en su pelcula

Goodbye Blue Sky

http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=ukVNEwRLOUc&feature=related
Una paloma blanca huye volando y con una sangrienta explosin se transforma
en una gran ave negra que asecha y arranca un pedazo de tierra. Haciendo
entrada un monstruo de guerra sobre aquellos que atemorizados esperan
ocultos.
Todo est devastado y los seres esquelticos forman un cementerio
despidindose del cielo azul. Mientras la sangre se va por la rejilla.

What shall we do now.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXKvVeVtXg&feature=fvwrel
Dos flores, que se acarician en un espacio oscuro, en intimidad unidas
sutilmente, llegan a su xtasis, pero sin explicacin una de ellas ataca a la otra,
ambas pelean. La vctima (la rosa) roja sangra y la otra flor le devora mientras
se convertirte en un ave que se aleja volando, mostrando un crudo lugar que se
acordona con un muro de materialismo. Y de un rosto que lanza un alarido. La
flor que atac regresa, ahora tiene forma de mujer y se convierte tanto en
arma y jeringa, hasta como guitarra.
No solo vemos una experiencia amorosa destructiva sino que tambin un muy
bien marcado uso del trmino del materialismo y como se observan humanos,
pero no humanidad, ms los objetos que las mismas personas quienes
terminan lastimando a otros, guerra y compras que al final simplemente eran
innecesarias.

Gerald Scarfe no solo contribuy con Pink Floyd en cuanto a los 15 minutos de
animacin del largometraje the Wall en 1982, sino que tambin realiz la
portada del lbum en 1979, animaciones que se presentaron en la gira y un
libro recopilando las ilustraciones que realiz a lo largo de la trayectoria que
comparti con ellos.
http://www.geraldscarfe.com/shop/pink-floyd/
 En Conclusin:

La combinacin de la animacin, las actuaciones y el lbum de Pink Floyd en s,

lograron un alto grado de aceptacin por mi parte. Gerald Scarfe y Roger
Waters quedan parados como verdaderos genios para m.

It seems like the group Pink Floyd was destined to create the double-album The Wall. In
fact, when you take a look at the history of the group, it almost seems like their entire career
was leading up to the creation of this now-classic album. From the moment their original
lead singer, Syd Barrett, disappeared into a psychedelic stupor, the band was leading to the
point where it would create one of the most popular and influential albums of the latter half
of the twentieth century.
The band, by the end of the '70s, was in a kind of creative stupor. They had started out as a
band that played strange, small clubs in and around London to captive audiences who sat,
silent, dazzled, as they filled those small rooms with swirling psychedelic noise and dazzling
colored bubbles and lights. All of that changed when the band created Dark Side of the
Moon.

There are many fans of rock and roll and the band, in particular, that would suggest
that Dark Sidewas their greatest album. Certainly, it was the album where the lyrical talents
of reluctant front-man Roger Waters and the musical abilities of guitarist David Gilmour
were working in perfect tandem. Waters had always wanted to just play bass, leaving the
songwriting to Barrett. However, when Barrett left reality, the song writing was turned over
to him. At first his lyrics were nebulous and unspecific. However, that began to change and
it became very specific with Dark Side.

Gilmour, meanwhile, had been a good friend of Barrett. When Barrett began his slide into
madness, Gilmour was often the one called in to substitute. It was only natural, then, when
the band decided to move on from Syd, that Gilmour would take his place. Barrett did not
take well to this, at first, but eventually the band, and Barrett, adapted.

Dark Side of the Moon became a phenomenon. Although the band had started to reach
across the ocean with some moderate success in the States, it was with this album that they
truly became a supergroup. They were no longer going to be playing small nightclubs and
strange places where the audience sat quietly, cross-legged, on the floor. The album sold
well and then stayed on the Billboard Top 200 for a record amount of time. It continues to
sell.

The album had a profound effect on the band. They were suddenly multi-millionaires. They
could do anything and everything they had ever dreamed about doing. What it cost the,
however, was the ability to create as they pleased, which had been the way they preferred to
work. They were now a commodity. They were now a product as well as a band. Thousands
upon thousands of dollars were riding on their future efforts and the pressure to create
another Dark Side was tremendous. Their touring schedule became grueling and they had
to travel around the globe over and over and over again. They were suddenly celebrities and
couldn't walk about like they had before.

What this lead to was a kind of creative exhaustion. They toured for two years with Dark
Side. When the group returned to the studio, more after pressure from their label than any
real desire to return to work, they were completely exhausted. They had no more ideas. As
such, Gilmour and the rest of the band were relieved when Waters decided to step in and
take further control of the project and the group itself. Although the result has become
another classic and, to many, their favorite Pink Floyd album, the band was entirely unsure
of what they had produced. That first album was Wish You Were Here and it dealt entirely
with the idea of being exhausted and being "there, but not there."

The album was another success. This lead to more touring. Waters was now starting to
crack. He was starting to understand the pressure that had been on Barrett all of those
years before and he felt he was losing touch with his audience by playing the ever-larger
arenas. The shows were getting bigger, playing to larger audiences, but at what cost?

The band, once again, returned to the studio after a two year break for touring. Waters was
now in even-greater control of the band. Gilmour attempted to exercise more control over
the music this time around, but Waters' lyrics were getting ever-more specific. The next
album was Animals. While it may not be considered as much of a classic as Dark Side of the
Moon or Wish You Were Here it did become another hit. Now, even larger venues were in
order. The result was the "In the Flesh" tour.

Waters was losing contact with the rest of the band at this point. He would often fly to
venues in a private helicopter while the others took limos. He was not speaking to the band
as much. He confessed, in later years, he wondered if he was mentally ill. He began to
envision the many thousands of fans as mindless sheep while he was like a despotic
dictator, capable of twisting their thoughts and even actions.

This culminated in an incident that shocked Waters. While playing a huge arena in
Montreal, he began to gesture toward one male fan near the front of the stage. Exactly what
this person was doing is unclear, but Waters began to perceive he was trying to antagonize
him. He motioned the young man down to the very front of the stage and then spat in the
man's face. Waters was stunned at his behavior.

From this incident he began to perceive of a show where, during the course of the show, a
wall would be built between the band and the audience. He originally conceived of a black
wall, built over the course of the concert. And that, at some key point, eventually the band
would be entirely hidden from the audience. Thus was the initial germ of an idea that would
become The Wall.

Once again, when the touring ended, the band retired to their respective homes. The band
was not even entirely sure if there would be another album. Once again, they were
exhausted. Rick Wright, the keyboardist, has barely participated in the past two albums. It
was also known by the band, and acknowledged by Wright later on, that he was addicted to
cocaine. Gilmour worked on a solo album. Nick Mason, the drummer, returned to collecting
the classic cars he enjoyed driving.

Waters began working on this next project. He had two ideas in mind. One was a narrative
about a dream he had and would become his first solo project The Pros and Cons of
Hitchhiking. The second was The Wall. He wrote out the narrative concepts and composed
songs which he sang into a tape recorder in his home. When the band again gathered to
discuss their next move, he brought the two tapes with them.

Both Mason and Wright were creatively spent. It was decided that Wright would officially
be removed from the band and take a session player wage going forward. Mason was saved
by the fact he had helped, in the past, with sound effects and other areas in making the
records. Gilmour was the only other creative force in the band at that time and he took the
two tapes with him and said he would give them a listen and his opinion of what album
should be next.
Gilmour stated that he found Pros and Cons to be much too personal to Waters and un-
relatable to the band and others. He also claimed that The Wall was very depressing and, in
parts, boring, but he thought there was enough of a concept there that he could work with
it. So, The Wall won.

From the beginning Waters had big ideas for The Wall. He conceived of the project as an
album, a stage show and a film. However, the first stage was to complete the album and the
story was far from complete when the band began working in their recording studio.

The Wall is a concept album. Concept albums had been the order of the day for the band
since Dark Side of the Moon. Some concept albums attempt to tell an actual story, while
others simply have a unifying theme that binds the songs together. The Wall would attempt
to tell a story, but also have a unifying theme.

The story of The Wall is a combination of Waters and Barrett. It tells the story of Pink, a
rock and roll star who is on another grueling tour in the United States. Throughout his life,
various events have caused him serious emotional damage. To deal with them he has been
mentally building a "wall" that is shutting him down emotionally from the rest of the world.
Each event is another "brick."

The first brick is the death of his father at Anzio, in Italy, during World War II. This was
autobiographical of Waters life. He had often lamented the death of his father when he was
still an infant and growing up without him. He was particularly upset because he was told
by his mother that his father was very musical.

The next brick in the wall is his over-protective mother. Waters was quick to point out that
this was not autobiographical. He felt that his mother was very encouraging. Waters'
mother was an activist and instilled socialist beliefs in Roger from the time he was a child.
However, he stated he knew people who were smothered by their own parents. It was also
pointed out that when Syd Barrett officially vanished from public life, he went home to live
with his mother.

The smothering from his mother causes Pink to be unable to relate to women. This is
explained in the song "Mother." So, that when he finally does meet and fall in love with a
woman he is, at times, abusive both physically and mentally, and completely unable to
relate to her. While he tours the United States, he makes a call home to speak to his wife
and another man answers. The final brick in his wall is that his wife is cheating on him.

At this point Pink disappears entirely behind his wall. He now sits, catatonic, in a chair,
with a television on showing him war movies, in his hotel room. He begins to remember
things from his past and wonder about his life and why things have happened as they have
happened. He looks at himself as sad and pathetic. When, finally, his manager comes to the
hotel to take him to his concert, he finds Pink unresponsive. This leads into the classic
"Comfortably Numb" which describes a doctor giving Pink an injection to revive him long
enough to do the show.

There is just one more moment of clarity, on the album, at this point. During "The Show
Must Go On" Pink wonders if maybe he can just "leave the show." However, he soon
discovers that he cannot and that the show must go on, whether he is ready, or sane, or not.

On the album, at this point, Pink has become completely insane. He views himself as a
Nazi-like dictator and his fans as his blind followers. As he goes on stage, he is teetering on
the brink, the drugs pumping through his system. He yells into the microphone that the real
Pink is "back in the hotel" and that he is a surrogate, sent in his place. The band then
launches into "Run Like Hell" which is meant to be a song from Pink's set. The lyrics send
him tumbling headlong into his hallucination.

What follows next is profoundly disturbing. Pink rails against minorities and those he
considers inferior. He imagines his fans as his soldiers, marching through the streets and
weeding out the "weaklings" and the unfit. Pink is, essentially, having his breakdown on
stage in front of his fans.

The listener is now behind the wall with Pink. We are inside his mind as he puts himself on
a humiliating trial where he laments the pain he has caused. He sentences himself to have
his wall torn down and be "exposed before his peers." This was the climax of the album,
concert and film. The wall comes down and Pink is left barren, exposed. Listeners with
sharp ears will hear that the album ends with the words "Isn't this where..." and that the
start of the album the words are "...we came in?" Thus, the entire process is a cycle and Pink
is doomed to start rebuilding his wall all over again.

The album is a deep, searing look into the mind of a man going insane. It is personal to
Waters, but incorporates elements of Barrett's breakdown and even the mental problems of
other members of the band, such as Rick Wright. Despite the disturbing themes and
images, the album has become a classic and a hit. It was helped by having "Another Brick in
the Wall Part Two" become a huge radio hit.

It was a struggle for the band to get this album together. Arguments broke out and producer
Bob Ezrin was brought in to act as mediator. He helped the album achieve the coherence
and order that it currently has. He put some songs back in that the band had grown tired of.
He also sent Waters away to do rewrites and take some things out that he felt were too close
to Waters and not universal enough.

Once the album was finished, the Wall was performed on stage. However, it was only
performed a few times. It was such a massive undertaking that a full-fledged tour was
impossible. Plus, tensions within the band made such a tour impossible as well. The show
only played three nights in Los Angeles and three nights at a venue near London.

During the course of the show, the audience was shown a multi-media bonanza. Gerald
Scarfe was hired to draw animations that were projected on a screen behind the band or on
the wall itself when it was complete. Giant inflatable characters of the teacher, the mother
and Pink's wife were created. A wall 40-feet high would be built each night out of white
cardboard bricks and then torn down at the end.

At the same time, the concept for the film was taking shape. Originally the film was to star
Waters as the main character. The concerts were to be filmed with segments that would
further the story filmed as well. However, things began to change when filmmaker Alan
Parker was hired to direct.

It seems as if the meeting of Waters and Parker was like the proverbial rock meeting the
proverbial hard place. Both of them are strong-willed, determined people who each wanted
their own way. Conflicts started almost immediately. Parker wanted to tell a slightly
different story that would go beyond Waters' psyche and Waters wanted to keep the film
more in line with the story on the album.

Immediately gone was Waters as the main character. Singer Bob Geldof was hired to take
on the role. It was a move Waters never really warmed to. Geldof only sings a few times
during the movie. The concert scenes that had been filmed with the original band were also
gone and new concert scenes were filmed. Waters began to feel betrayed.

The film, in many ways, has to be seen separately from the album. It is an all-out attack on
the senses. The music is loud, the images disturbing and the performance by Geldof
mesmerizing. It is, essentially, an hour-and-a-half long music video that plays most of the
songs heard on the album. Parker, however, excised certain songs along the way, adding to
Waters fury.

The animation from Gerald Scarfe features prominently throughout the movie. For fans of
animation, this is a movie that falls into the must-see category. The images are very, very
disturbing, showing the madness growing in Pink's mind better than any real-life images
could. Some of his images, such as the crossed red and black hammers, have become iconic.

The film changes the story only slightly. Pink's descent into being a dictator seems to take
place entirely in his mind before he arrives at the venue where he is to perform. His trial
seems to take place, again in his mind, while he reviews a book of lyrics in a bathroom stall.
The exact fate of Pink is not entirely clear. After the wall explodes, accompanied by a
frenzied scream of terror and pain, we are treated to an image of a bombed-out building
and children scrounging the wreckage. What is it meant to imply? It is not entirely clear.
The movie, however, is powerful and deeply moving. While Waters has never truly warmed
up to it, there is not denying the power of the film. Waters, in fact, when he would tour in
later years he would sometimes carry film cans on stage while wearing a jacket with a knife
protruding from his back that would ooze blood.

With the album, the stage version and the movie, the band had been working on The
Wall for years by the time the movie was shown. All of that time spent deeply in the mind of
Roger Waters was too much. When Waters proposed that their next album he leftover songs
that they could not find a spot for in The Wall and that it should be called Spare Bricks that
was the final straw. The songs would eventually become the album The Final Cut an album
many fans consider the worst of the album canon. It was a financial failure in terms of Pink
Floyd but the band never toured with it. Waters declared he would never work with anyone
from the band again and the line up of Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason was done.

Over the years, the band has managed to be reborn. Two more albums were made and more
tours were had featuring Gilmour, Wright and Mason. Waters, meanwhile, launched a
moderately successful solo career and even played The Wall on a gigantic scale in Berlin
when the wall was finally torn down and Germany reunited. The original line up even had a
momentous reunion on stage during the "Live 8" performances in the early 2000s.

Rick Wright died, thus ending most likelihood of any reunion tour. However, in 2010,
Roger Waters has announced a tour of The Wall. It's the first official tour of the album since
it was released back in the late '70s. The movie is also celebrating the anniversary of its
release and was even shown as during Roger Ebert's film festival "Ebertfest" in Champaign,
Illinois.

The Wall has now become a classic. It has become a milestone in rock and roll as well as
among fans of the band. At the time, it was a curious and strange album that many involved
with the project wondered who would want to listen to it. Over time it has proven to be an
enduring classic and a staple for "classic rock" radio stations around the world. Now, with
the new tour, a new generation will find itself exposed to this album. Thus, like the album
itself, it is a never-ending cycle.