So don’t hurt me but I do not like Pink Floyd’s music and never has even though I grew up listening to it, but I have more respect for it oddly enough after seeing The Wall. I have never really listened to the lyrics, except for the song “Another Brick in the Wall,” but what school child didn’t? I never knew before that the lyrics told a story about the lead singers’ childhood and losing his father to the war then about his crumbling marriage. I love the idea of songs and their lyrics connecting to tell a story, like the artists Coheed and Cambria, instead of being about random events that probably never happened.
I’m not sure if I enjoyed the movie enough to see it again or at all, but I actually did enjoy the animation and the expressionistic influence. I am not a fan of musicals in general mostly because they are full of cheese and songs about nothing important, but this one at least was a little deeper. Symbolism reigned especially in the animation. The coolest symbolism I found was the wall and the main character himself trying to get around it although he himself created it I think.
He built it yet he wanted to get over it
One thing I did not understand was why the main character saw himself as the “Nazi” leader. Is that how he felt he was as a lead singer of a band? Some people do idolize bands and what the bands believe and follow them like a religion. Peopled have killed because a song lyric told them to, so is that the point he is trying to make?
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