Movie Plays On Pink example essay topic

The movie "The Wall" by Pink Floyd is a movie full of interpretation and analyze. The one hour and thirty five-minute movie, based on the album "The Wall", is about a striving musician named Pink who life was full of devastation and horror. The entire movie is based on the flashbacks Pink has of his past as a child and his recent past experiences. As the movie prevails Pink becomes extremely insane because of his past and it ruins his life completely. In one of the opening scene of the movie a maid is cleaning the floor of a hotel when she goes to clean Pinks room she realizes it is locked, she unlocks the door but when she tries to open the door the chain stops it setting Pink into a flashback frenzy.

When Pink heres the chain hitting the door the movie goes into a flashback of Pink seeing the kids locked up on their way to a concentration camp, while this flashback is occurring the song "In the Flesh?" begins to play and flashes f war come over the screen. As the flashes of war become more clearer you begin to see dead soldiers laying on the ground, as you are seeing this the lyric in the song "and it only killed a few hundred ordinary lives". meaning that the war was successful and that the country just lost some "ordinary people no one important. This in my opinion is so true in today's era of the war on terrorism, for example on the news during the recent war the media said that the united states and Allie force only lost 400 people, four hundred people whose families are without a loved one. As the movie plays on Pink begins to have flashbacks of his childhood, the flashback is once again about the war but more in detail about how his father dies. The next scene is a woman a sleep, Pinks mother, and a baby in a carriage crying then all of a sudden just a quick shot of a man lying dead in a pool of his own blood, Pinks father.

The melody "Thin Ice" begins to play as the picture fades away and as the picture is almost gone the phrase "The sky may look blue but it isn't" signifying that even though things seemed good at home with his mother and the sky was blue, but his father was dead and soon everything would be so good as time progressed. As the movie progresses it flashes to the present time and Pink is laying in a pool calm when suddenly flashes of his father appear in his head. Pink then begins to panic and flail his arms the water then turn to a blood red color, which was later explained in the movie when Pink goes nuts in a hotel room and cuts his hand on a piece of glass. The church is the next flash back Pink has, it is of him and his mother, his mother is praying at the altar and a young Pink is walking around.

The song Another Brick in The Wall Part I begins to play and the lyrics purpose that Pink's mother tells Pink as he gets older that his father is away across seas but all he really has is the memory in the picture albums. As the song goes on the lyrics "daddy what did you leave for me?" are repeated several times, the next scene shows Pink in a playground playing with another young child and his father, when the father and son leave Pink grabs the fathers hand. This in my eyes is trying to get the point across that Pink wants to know what his father has done for him he was never their when he needed him because he was dead. In the movie a teenage Pink comes home and walks into his parents room and goes through his fathers and finds his army uniform. Pink opens a letter it was the notice that his father had died and it was signed with a rubber stamp. This symbolic lyric tries to provide yo with the vision that Pinks father served his country and they sign his death notice with a rubber stamp, referring back to the "ordinary lives" lyrics.

As song continues, the lyrics describe how Pinks father was killed "the tigers got loose... soldiers left behind most dead some dying... that's how they took my daddy from me". . The tigers in the lyrics are referring to tiger tanks and how they trampled and killed soldiers, and I thought it was ironic how in the first scene they Show Pinks father who was told to stay put even though he requested that him and his platoon be moved out because the tiger tanks were closing in. As the film continues an animation of a dove appears that suddenly turns into a evil hawk that rips a apart of the city away and blood squirts everywhere, clearly referring to the way the government has taken lives out of the community by sending them to war. As the animations goes on the hawk then turns into war plane, Hawk obviously symbolizing the government, then the planes turn into crosses symbolizing the people dying for the government. The last seen in the animation is a picture of the British flag which begins to deprecate and becomes a blood covered cross and the blood is flowing into the gutters, having the same signifgance as the rubber stamp signature.

As the animation fades the song "Good by blue sky" is played symbolizing that things seemed good but in reality they aren't. The song "Another Brick in The Wall Part II" begins to play as a teacher is yelling at Pink for doing some thing that isn't except able to him, through the whole school scene the teacher talks down to the student as if he is better then them. As the scene pursues they show the children on a conveyed belt going into a machine and coming out looking the same, this refers the lyric " you " re just another brick in the wall" meaning that your no one special we are all taught to be the same and not individuals. "We don't know Education" meaning we don't need none of your antics to make us the same we want to be our selves not what you want us to be. After the children realize this they 6 begin to rebel and eventually tear down "the wall".

In the scene where Pink is calling his girl friend there is a direct reference to suicide that isn't clear at first but makes sense as the scene plays on. In the beginning of the scene Pink is trying to get in contact with his girlfriend after letting the phone ring for a little while he hangs up and unplugs the phone, lays in bed with the phone cord rapped around his hands and in front of his neck. This startled me at first because it really came out of no where, at this point in the film there was no reference that his girlfriend was sleeping around. In the movie Pink has a weird relationship with his mother, almost as if his mother babied him to much. In a scene Pink grabs his girlfriend's shoulder and she turns away and in the previous scene as the song "Mother" plays the lyrics" mothers gonna make all of your nightmares come true, mama gonna put all of her fears into you" a young Pink runs to his mother a cuddles I bed with her, and now when he has the flashback of when his girlfriend turns from him he crawls into a little ball on the bed. The part of the movie when Pink goes over the edge of insanity is when he is the United States and tries to make a call to his wife and a man picks up.

At this point his mind explodes and he goes completely crazy. The scene were he really begins to show his insanity is when the "groupie" goes into his room and Pink begins to break everything insight and then later is on the floor making designs out of all the thing he broke. By the end of the movie Pink has completely gone insane and in the long run has lost everything that has ever meant something to him. The Movie "The Wall" was interesting but a little hard to comprehend and analyze. As my final analyzes of the movie, I believe that Pink is a self portrayal of Roger Waters life and how he would have dealt with his problems. The movie it self had a lot of ironic symbolism which made it interests but it still took me watching it a few times until I was able to completely understand the flashbacks and the way the movie was presented from going from present too past to present..