I think of Pink Floyd sometimes as "the other band" I remember from my youth, the primary of course was The Beatles, these being the bands I heard around my house a lot.
When I went into this movie as a teen or so, I had heard the radio hits of Pink Floyd and some of the back catalogue, but I was no means a fan and I was not seeing the movie because of them. I heard it was weird, artistic, probably disturbing. See my previous post today Brazil for an explanation of how I found movies back in the day.
Pink Floyd The Wall revisits the themes present in the album The Wall, the 1980 album. Those themes are basically: coming of age, loss of innocence, drug addiction, violence, women, mothers, loss of father, loss of parents, and authoritarian influence stemming from unfocused rage basically. These themes are visited in the film in what is basically a long music video of the character Pink suffering a drug overdose wherein he thinks about his childhood and reflects on his current pysche and being a musician.
Pink Floyd The Wall is heavily image-ridden, with animation and multi other expressionistic art mediums used to illustrate (literally, get it? Because of the animation. Okay) the film's point. There's a lot of anger here, there's a lot of loss and frustration. There's equally a lot of beauty, and all of those are present in the movie.
I really loved it when I originally saw it in my teens. I think now on a rewatch, that it's possible, indeed likely that I had simply never seen anything like this before. Not to say this is not a good movie or a fun watch. It's clear this is heavily infuenced by war and politics, and overall, I think it is really well shot and interesting, but it didn't resonate with me in the same way it did when I first saw it.
Basically when it ended I said aloud (because I had been considering it before the rewatch) "Yeah, I could donate that."
I'll give it a 4 though, cause it is a good movie and a precursor to music videos, and has some horrifically memorable sequences.
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