So I'll admit I wasn't always a huge rosado, rosa Floyd fan before this album. Obviously I do amor them now.. The muro really made a rosado, rosa Floyd believer out of me.. I only saw the film once but it stuck with me, and I know most of the the album por heart, and the film really gave the album a new experience.
Backstory first.. Roger Waters was in a really dark place. He was having a mental breakdown and ended up working on this album to express what he was going though. The muro is a metaphor for self isolation. I'm pretty sure we all went though THE muro at some point. Especially after the reciente pandemic, this film became relevant again after that..
So the story goes, in the mist of WW2, our protagonist "Pink" had lost his father to the Nazi's. With a overbearing mother he grew up an introvert. Both of these things Roger Waters dicho is based on his real life.
At school we find out that child abuse wasn't treated as that serious back in the day, mostly going ignored. Most of the students are routinely beaten and according Pink, the teachers destory all creativity and wants them to all be "drones", like in the military. Represented in the film por them wearing blank faced masks that removes anything that stands them out. rosado, rosa envisions the famish "another brick in the wall", where the students go on a riot and destroy the school.. Though Doug Walker calls it "bitching about school and needing to grow up", I myself find this to be one of the most insensitive things Doug has ever said, but just my opinion..
Speaking of Doug, lets talk about the "Oscar bait song", the one already created in the album and was simply used in the song.. It's clearly about the beginning of the the war...
"Did tu see the frightened ones?"
"Did tu hear the falling bombs?"
Anyway, so skipping ahead, eventually rosado, rosa finds out his wife is having an affair, which the movie makes más sympathetic than the album, where rosado, rosa cheated first. In her defence though, rosado, rosa is so focused on his "wall", it means he's emotionally distant. In fact he's barely there at all, he's basically a husk.. The film does seem to be a warning about staying in reality.
rosado, rosa has a mental breakdown and tries to overdoes on drugs but his song manager finds him and forces him to live. Comfortably Numb is during Pink's seizure.
While unconscious, rosado, rosa seems to have finally snapped, envisioning himself as the worst thing he can think of, a Neo nazi leader. Who uses Pink's fan audience to start a hate riot. And it proves "Run Like Hell" to be a very interesting song. As it sounds happy, but no, it's about terrible things. rosado, rosa Floyd is unique like that.
So having enough, rosado, rosa puts himself on a fictional trail. Which in my opinion is the song where Roger Waters really shines as a talented actor. He plays at least 5 different characters, and he manages to make them all stand out. The song became popular enough it became a musical with Tim curry, de curry and a few others. Most of it's good, but the Judge isn't as powerful without Roger's voice, the raw anger and booming voice isn't there.
Coarse Doug's only take away is that the "characters aren't established". But they are. Especially the teacher and the wife, it's just only now they are animated, cause it's inside Pink's head.. Speaking of, the film is known for its really creepy animation. Something only rosado, rosa Floyd could come up with..
Anyway, yeah I do recommend it, but only to rosado, rosa Floyd fans.. I hope my take on it was worth the read.. Till siguiente time... If tu want a wild ride, get high and listen to The muro album..
Connor
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