Opinions regarding Pink Floyd "The Wall", Please?!
Question: What is Pink Floyd's The Wall about? Answers from people who are from this era (1979) will be most appreciated. I am curious to know, specifically, what "The Wall" means or represents to you?
Answers: What is Pink Floyd's The Wall about? Answers from people who are from this era (1979) will be most appreciated. I am curious to know, specifically, what "The Wall" means or represents to you?
The Wall is pretty complex when you really start to look into it. The two biggest themes are arguably Roger Water's feelings of isolation in the face of fame, and the emotional insecurities developed during adolescence ... something that also ties into the feelings of isolation.
Waters was becoming severely disillusioned during the period before the recording of the album... he has stated that he felt "a wall" was growing between the audience and himself, and he actually dreamed of building one. He told an anecdote of spitting on a fan, and from these incidents, he began further developing the central theme... how being idolized and lauded can drive one into isolation and self-destruction.
A secondary theme is also taken directly from Water's childhood. His father was either killed or MIA (I can't properly recall) during WWII and he was raised by his mother, often feeling rather smothered and uncertain. In The Wall he combines his own feelings of growing up viewing the world around him in safety, yet while struggling with internal turmoil, and his life experience of going from a street musician to a rock star as he experiences the widening gap between his emotional contact.
When you get right down to it, The Wall isn't a simple cornerstone of teenage angst and rebellion it is often tagged as. It's far darker than that, as it boils down to a grown man coming to terms with his life, his fame, and his emotional/mental state... and what he finds there is not necessarily peace.
Emotional protection. Roger Waters seems to have had a rather unpleasant childhood, which impacted his adulthood as well, if one is allowed to parallel the main character and Roger.
drugs and weirdness
I really had a hard time figuring it out too until I looked it up after watching the movie. This is a piece and I'll give you the web site:
Aureally explosive on record and visually explosive on the screen, the Wall traces the life of the fictional protagoinst, Pink Floyd, from his boyhood days in war-torn England to his self-imposed isolation as a world-renownedrock star, leading to a climax that is as questionably cathartic as it is destructive.
The wall is about a depressed drug addict who builds a wall around himself. He was abused/overprotected as a child by his mother and his father was killed in a war. This together with bad relationships caused him to be a bit psycho and turn to drugs, he was also a rock star. Basically, this is a fictional story of a psycho drug addict rockstar.
It's about Pink shielding himself from the rest of the world (emotionally) and as you hear/see in the end, his deepest fear is someone knocking down that wall. Then of course at the trial, they do knock it down.
It probably can be explained more but I find brief is just easier to understand. Hope that helps.
it means that every 5 minutes when it came on the radio back then i wanted to puke. it did force me to stop listening to the radio.
The Wall is about how no one in this day and age is supposed to have any individuality.
Like how schools teach what they want so everyone has the same thoughts and ideas and no one questions authority.
To me it means that government wants us all to be the same and never have an original thought. So that is where the wall comes in, everything that makes us different is kept behind the wall so no emotion or feelings show themselves because we have all been brainwashed to not be ourselves but to be what authority and the media have decided we should be.
Remember the part when he was in front of the judge and what the judge says, and the part where all the peoplego thru the conveyer and come out looking all the same.
I agree it has to do with his childhood but there is a whole lot more to it than that. Pink Floyd wouldn't make something so plain as a hurtful childhood which so many people have had.
I stand by what I gleaned from the movie and the music.
Another Brick In The Wall says right there that we are all the same and backs up what I am saying.
Control in society and overcoming.
The wall is what he built up to shield himself from being hurt again. It is his defense mechanism as to not be treated like a child anymore. He was messed up emotionally as a child, and that carried with him, hense the drugs and loneliness
To me it represents the gap between generations. I graduated high school in 1975 and Pink Floyd was a staple during those years. Many of their songs were regarding conflict between the younger and older generations, as much of the music was back then. Young people emerged as a unit in the 60s and 70s, like never before in history.
When the album first came out I liked it. Then my boyfriend (later my husband) and I bought it and I read all the lyrics. Then I didn't like it for a while because the whole concept is very depressing, really. After a while, though, I liked it again on the strength of the music.
To summarize what it is about, I'd say: Life sucks, then you die.
It is about a fictional rock star named Pink Floyd, his childhood, and his life.
The albums title symbolizes the walls he built around himself in order to block out his past, and his overcoming them.
the wall: its about breaking control and brainwashing. its about being free from FEAR of isolation, overcoming it FEAR. There is a"the wall" DVD, rent and see it.
esspecially the song "the wall" where shown how brick wall being broken.
really the whole album is about the fictional character pink floyd, who has been consistently hurt in one way or the other, mostly with the help of society in some way, from his childhood...from the death of his father and its concealment, to his teachers in school, to his wife later on in life, he has been hurt, and so he builds a theoretical wall around himself to protect himself from being hurt by society...later, he begins to realize his mistake, and tries to break through this wall, but can't because of the ties he has severed from society
so basically, the wall is just a barrier between a person and society, and it is meant to show that one cannot live by cutting themselves off from the outside world, they must find someone to have as part of their life