Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd's music works on its own. As a film, it's a waste of time.

I don't know if Pink Floyd were aware of the impact that The Wall would have when they released it. Today, there is some consensus in considering it one of the best rock albums ever and Another Brick in the Wall has become an anthem for teenage rebellion, which does not conform to the rules, dictates and conventions. And I feel free to say all this because rock is not, by any stretch of the imagination, one of my personal preference styles of music. I listen, casually, but I wouldn't pay for a ticket.

What this film does, essentially, is to take the concept of the album which was designed and released as if it were a kind of opera-rock and give it a look to ma...

Using Pink Floyds iconic album as a soundtrack not only brings this vibrant feature alive, but it also allows Alan Parker to treat each track as if it were a template to experiment with some quite radically differing styles of storytelling. There is a running theme, that being the tale of Pink Floyd (Bob Geldof) who lost his dad during the war, saw his wife abandon him and who ever since he can remember has been sheltering behind a wall - physical and psychological - trying to recover from an overbearing education that did nothing but stifle this young mans innate sense of creativity. As he hits the heights of musical stardom, his turmoil only increases and the wall starts to exert menacing and containing influences that he might never be a...