While watching the movie The Wall, I was left wondering what was going on. The movie seems to be a tale of a rockers quest to get to the top and then while on tour, his girlfriend/wife found love in the arms of another man from her anti-war group. The next scenes of the movie basically consisted of the main character trying to cause complete destruction whether it is with a groupie, causing havoc on his hotel room, or literally trying to kill himself. The character flashes back in forth from his childhood to the present day, this is a sure sign of some of the blame for his current state being placed upon his parents and how he was raised, with the lack of a father.
I remember thinking that the movie was pretty trippy but I do remember a couple things that really were brought up in my mind. First, he really found his identity in material things. These things ranged from just things, to fame, to his girlfriend, and even seemed to be related to his mother as well. This was interesting and really caused me to put an emphasis on finding identity in God. With material things, one’s attitude and mood will just go up and down depending on really pointless things; however, with the focus on God, one could find joy in any situation. Which, whether religious or not, isn’t that the best way to live? Instead of walking around in a haze always upset with something? The movie caused me to think, I did find it pretty boring and hard to watch but all and all it definitely caused me to think, which I guess in the end is good to have to checkup priorities.
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Trippy is a word that describes this movie very well. I did also notice that his identity was controlled by material things. I also believe that because he had such a distance from the social world he tried to fill in his social gaps with the material objects, in the end actually distancing him further from reality. It is an interesting question you raise when you talk about shouldn’t people want religion. I have often wondered that myself. It seems to me that when a person is so caught up in the way society wants them to act they begin to loose their own identity and fall into the norm of being regular. This is often the fate for many people that don’t have focus in their life, they tend to follow and just agree with everything rather than question and try to learn more.
The above statement was made by Matt Boykin.
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