ESSAY
The movie “The Wall”, since the release
of it, led to huge and endless discussions. For many people, this represents something
different in relation to the protagonist,which was Pink Floyd. The events and
the songs that are displayed, during the movie, let us comprehend clearly the
meaning of the protagonist's life and the movie itself. After studying it in depth, the
wall may mean a separation from the protagonist’s hurtful emotions within the
problems he had to suffer and his real life.
Annalysing the plot of the film with an overall view,the movie try to link the emotions, feelings and problems.These things, represent a meaning through a mental wall which is an
escape from real life, and the control that is exercised in the society.The mental wall’s bricks, may be the
particular facts that happened such as his fatherless childhood, his dominant mother, the out of touch education system which is centered on
“producing” a particularly type of individual and the government that treats citizens
like chess pieces.All these facts, helped out to create this wall,so Roger, the
protagonist could live freely in a way in a parallel universe without being
controlled and suffering among his life problems.He escaped from reality; a reality in which he felt oppressed by fame and fortune.
Nonetheless, some people go against these views and tend to reject this
meaning lacking evidence or reasons. Songs which are being played in the background during the
movie may support this idea of a mental wall built in order to free his mind from control.
“Another brick in the wall” it is a clearly example which validates the meaning
previously explained due to the fact that it express Roger’s suffering because
of the problems he had. We hear of the first grief stricken cries of Roger's
lost father when it says "Daddy's flown across the ocean", Leaving just a
memory, Snapshot in the family album, Daddy what else did you leave for me?” In
the second part of the song Pin Floyd says “We don't need no education, we
don't need no thought control." This is another example of the control that show the government,his mother and the education system tried to impose him, and he
really doesn’t want this in his life.
