VividSimon Simply Perfect

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

tahaa-17267 I watched "The Wall" again and again. 'Cause it's just explaining my life's emptiness. I just want to live without any religion, any ideology, any race, any relationship... I just want to live with myself. I just want to think about everything, draw and write about everything... Actually "The Wall" is not my type, usually i'm watching Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Tarr, Bergman and some directors' like these. But even The Wall is a different type movie, it's explaining a lot of things that unavailable to explain. Just must be watched...

coleluxton The Wall is an amazing in depth album about how aspects of his life leads to creating a social barrier between himself and the rest of the world. Someone that doesn't know much about the album would find it very difficult to follow along as there is some seriously powerful psychedelic sequences, but if you can understand them then the movie should be very enjoyable. In my own opinion Pink Floyd are my favorite band with the only close runner up being David Bowie and I'm not one of those guys that thinks "The 80's music is better than everything every made" however Pink Floyd as a fact are one of the greatest bands ever and the film is a great representative of their musical talents. I give it a 10 because the film is so unique that I haven't seen anything like it and the messages behind it are extremely powerful, I love the way they reference previous albums and one in the future.

SnoopyStyle Pink (Bob Geldof) is a rock star getting more and more isolated. His father died in WWII. He suffered in an oppressive British school system. With each problem, he adds another brick in a wall until he finally breaks down the wall.This is more like an experimental film with images of WWII war, fascist icons, and rebellious youth. There are memorable scenes of the school factory system. The WWII scenes are less compelling since it's all been done. There is a lot of repetition which does drag the pacing. There are great individual sections coupled with iconic Pink Floyd songs. This is a must for Pink Floyd fans and probably for any rock music fans.

david-sarkies When I first watched this film in my teenage years I really didn't get it, but then again the only reason that I watched it was because it was Pink Floyd. I then lent the movie to my boss and never saw it again (the moral of this story being – never lend a movie to your boss). Anyway, there is so much in this film that it is impossible to actually talk about it in the limited space on an IMDb review, however you can always go to Wikipedia, look at the discussion boards, or even visit my blog (sarkology.net) if you want to find out more about what is going on – especially if you are like me in my teenage years in that you loved the music, but the film simply went over your head.Anyway, I recently saw it again and surprisingly it made a lot more sense (probably because I am a lot older, and have seen quite a few weird and wonderful films such as this). You could say that it is basically an extended video clip of the entire Pink Floyd album The Wall, however it is much more than that (but if you do like the music then why not – watch it as an extended video clip). The film itself is very dark, and actually quite disturbing – especially if you are in the music industry, but then again Pink Floyd never shied away from attacking the music industry in their songs. According to Wikipedia, the production of the film eventually led to the split between Roger Waters and David Gilmor (and thus the end of what I considered the classic age of Pink Floyd).The film itself sticks closely, but not strictly, to the unity of time and place. If you have seen the film you may ask how, and my suggestion is that the film appears to take place over the period of a day, and most of the action occurs in the head of the protagonist, the rock musician Pink Floyd. The film opens with him sitting in a grungy hotel room watching television, and then goes through a series of flashbacks where we learn about the death of his father in World War II, his time as a child in the fifties, his failed marriage, and his descent into madness. We then cut back to the real world where his managers break down the door, inject him with amphetamines and drag him onto the stage where we are then thrown back into his hallucinatory world where he is a fascist dictator roaming the streets of London.The film touches on a lot of areas of modern society, such as the horror of war and how it not only tears apart families, but destroys the lives of innocent people; the modern education system that turns individuals into clones; the emptiness of the modern technological society; and the realities of the rock and roll lifestyle in that it is not as fulfilling as the media makes it out to be. The Wall is certainly a very confronting and challenging movie, and certainly deserves the accolades that it received (including the number 3 box office spot behind ET and An Officer and a Gentleman – but they were going to be really hard to beat – still, it is now a cult classic where as the two the beat it are quaint movies from the Eighties).