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The Wall is a masterful, surrealistic musical journey. Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and Band Aid fame plays Pink, who represents partially two of Pink Floyd's main men, Roger Waters and Syd Barrett. We hear him growing up, haunted by his father's death in the war, troubled by an oppressive school system, his failed marriage.
Presently, Pink is a burned out rock star who, presumably after too many drugs, sits alone in a hotel room, only to be artificially revived for his next show, which turns out to be a nightmarish fascist rally full of hatred and bigotry. All of this accumulates into the famous trial at the end where a not-so-sane Pink sits helpless at those who oppressed him have one last go at him. Of course, like many of the other things after the song "One of My Turns", the trial is a hallucination, as is the fascist concert. The album concludes with Pink's 'Wall' (a wall to that Pink 'builds' to shield himself from the horrors of society) being torn down.
Naturally, the entire theme of The Wall is the way people build up too many protective barriers around them, to the point where they become imprisoned by them. Pink's world has become such a nightmare of complete isolation and alienation. Perhaps it's only appropriate that The Wall presents itself in such a way that it's hard to really like or identify with it. Maybe the style itself is supposed to be another brick in the wall.
Presently, Pink is a burned out rock star who, presumably after too many drugs, sits alone in a hotel room, only to be artificially revived for his next show, which turns out to be a nightmarish fascist rally full of hatred and bigotry. All of this accumulates into the famous trial at the end where a not-so-sane Pink sits helpless at those who oppressed him have one last go at him. Of course, like many of the other things after the song "One of My Turns", the trial is a hallucination, as is the fascist concert. The album concludes with Pink's 'Wall' (a wall to that Pink 'builds' to shield himself from the horrors of society) being torn down.
Naturally, the entire theme of The Wall is the way people build up too many protective barriers around them, to the point where they become imprisoned by them. Pink's world has become such a nightmare of complete isolation and alienation. Perhaps it's only appropriate that The Wall presents itself in such a way that it's hard to really like or identify with it. Maybe the style itself is supposed to be another brick in the wall.
