Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama / Music
Duration: 95 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Alan Parker
Stars: Bob Geldof, James Laurenson and Bob Hoskins
IMDb score:
8,0 (90.474)
Releasedate: 14 July 1982
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Pink Floyd The Wall plot
"The Memories... The Madness... The Music... The Movie."
The film tells the story of rock singer Pink, who can only perform with the help of drugs. We follow Pink during his childhood and his school days, in which he slowly builds a wall around himself to protect himself from the outside world.
Actors and actresses
Pink
Pink's Mother
Pink's Father
Pink's Wife
Young Pink
Rock and Roll Manager
Little Pink
American Groupie
Teacher
English Doctor
Reviews & comments
kos
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- 36230 messages
- 8951 votes
Moderately positive. And that's a shame because I'm a very big Floyd fan.
The Wall is certainly not my favorite album of theirs, but the music deserved something more interesting than this.
Cool animation and partly nice and gray Thatcher-era British but sometimes more of a glorified video clip
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baspls
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- 4118 messages
- 1673 votes
Pink Floyd The Wall by Alan Parker is part feature film, part music video, part surreal animation and part experimental video art. The screenplay is written about Roger Waters and, like the lyrics on the album, is largely autobiographical.
Pink is a drug-addicted rocker. We see how his father was killed in the Second World War and how the boy struggles with the absence of his father in his youth. His mother is overprotective and the schoolmaster ridicules his poetry. Slowly he builds a wall around himself to protect himself from the outside world.
Sometimes I really appreciate the interaction between music and images in video clips. The 70s and 80s had some genius examples. However, a disadvantage is that these clips are always clearly commercial, have very poor image quality and are edited very messily. Essentially, Alan Parker shoots a top quality 95 minute video clip here.
The film takes a very associative approach to provide the underlying social commentary. Strongest is the film's anti-materialist message (many TVs have to die). Pop stars are compared to fascist dictators and Orwell's influences are omnipresent. Also, the film has a very strong anti-conformist message (especially during youth).
Although the film can still be quite chaotic and a little more chronological editing would have been nicer, I found it a very impressive audiovisual experience. It was great to see such an abstract album as The Wall worked out in this way. Strangely enough, both Alan Parker and the entire band don't seem to like the film.
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Onderhond
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- 87710 messages
- 13112 votes
Phew.
If you don't like Pink Floyd, it's better to ignore this one. In any case, always difficult with those album films, but even then image and sound should be able to reinforce each other and make something of it for people who have nothing to do with the album. That is absolutely not the case here.
In any case, a small setback that there is so little animation to be found. Often comes up in animation top lists, but that's already quite inappropriate. Well, that's not the fault of this movie. It is true that the animation is the best this film has to offer, those are often the most original pieces.
The narrative that lies below is bold and often very literal. The accompanying visual material is not of a high enough level and also goes poorly with the music, a little more interplay between the two would definitely not have been a bad thing.
I always find it interesting conceptually, making a movie with a certain album, but it rarely turns out to be something interesting. Especially for the fans of Pink Floyd this.
1.5*
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