The film tells about a boy named Pinker who killed his father during World War II when he was young. He grew up under the excessive care of his mother, always focused on a life of depression, and eventually began to take drugs and fell into a state of madness. There is no dialogue in the whole film, and there are no clues that run through the overall plot. The film is just constantly switching pictures, showing the inner world of the characters and the spiritual consciousness that the author intends to transmit in one shot. The film shows the three eternal themes of mankind: life and death, love and hate, war and peace, giving people a sense of tragic desolation.
The movie consists of five parts. The first part, the psychological journey of adolescence, tells the story of the lonely life of Pinker losing his father when he was young and the distress of school life. The second part, the journey of love, chronicles the scene of Pink and his wife from meeting to getting married, interspersed with various scenes from childhood, and finally he and his wife become strangers, and he is in extreme pain. The third part is still the continuation of love, but at this time he "only needs a lowly woman" to satisfy and comfort him, because he was hurt by love, because love has become the whole life. In the fourth part, in the mad world, Pinker is completely in a desperate situation. He relies on drugs to numb himself and is in a state of schizophrenia. The film uses dramatic and absurd performances to present everything, making the tragedy ridiculous and making Funny becomes thought-provoking. The fifth part, the reconstruction of hope in destruction, mainly through the production of animation, the human nature is reduced to the extreme. It symbolizes that the wall that isolates death has also fallen, and a new world is waiting for people to create!
In my opinion, the "lost wall" has two meanings: one is a symbol of the perplexed and trapped state of the individual; the prosperity of the external world is dazzling, the material abundance is intoxicating, and the pain of war. , What is the meaning of human existence, but there is no answer. The second is to symbolize the psychological distance between people. It's like a lyric repeatedly sung in the film, "We are all a brick on the wall".
"The Lost Wall" completely uses the narrative content and editing techniques of the stream of consciousness to express the "psychological reality" and "real reality" of Europeans with the subjective psychology of a young man, that is, it does not show the external living environment of people, but It is the inner world, which relies entirely on intuition to capture momentary impressions and illusions. It breaks the boundaries of time, makes the past, present, and future a new psychological combination, and the montage technique has been the most successful application.
The whole film organizes the narrative with the flow of consciousness such as Pinker's memories, associations, illusions, etc. There is no concept of time, no distinction between real and unreal, and no complete story flow. At the same time, the film also uses many formalism and realism expression techniques. There are many symbolic things in the film, such as the scenes of tulip flowers devouring people appearing many times, metaphors for the material desire to flow in peacetime with rich material. Also, if the father died when Pink was young, and the other children in the park were taken by their parents, a child was taken by his father on a slide and walked away with his hand. It was documentary. use. The film also uses a large number of absurd dramatic expressions. For example, the students are tamed into robots, and the entire school is masked, lined up and sent into the meat grinder; and the marriage contract between Pink and his wife is like a contract, psychologically completely isolated like a stranger. Animation is also used in many places in the film. For example, a dove symbolizing peace turns into an eagle, seeming to squeeze everything and possess everything; his wife, an ideal perfect woman, becomes a tulip flower of sexual desire, and so on.
Another major feature of the film is the use of many high-impact and expressive close-up shots. For example, a close-up of a match struck at the beginning of the film, and then to a large panorama. A close-up shot of an arm, the hairs on it are clearly visible, and when it reaches a hand holding a cigarette butt, the whole screen is filled with ashes-like despair; then the lens is pushed to an eye, as if it can understand everything about humans. This is a stream of consciousness film that mainly shows the inner world of the characters. The use of close-up shots strengthens these emotions, which is better than the use of the team leader's shots and long narratives.
"The Lost Wall" is the music by Pink Floyd. It is a combination of breathtaking music and bizarre sound and light effects. It has strong psychedelic colors, avant-garde and bold narrative techniques, transcending traditions, and conveys the experience of Europeans. The painful emotions after the Second World War, the music is always full of depression, depression, despair, and gloomy emotions, which is suffocating; it is more penetrating than the language of the picture and greatly exaggerates the emotions of the characters. The perfect combination of pictures and music makes this film uniquely attractive. Two parallel running lines strongly and deeply analyze all levels of consciousness and various forms of thinking, embodying the complex emotions of the characters, which shocks people.
The film compares Pinker's loneliness to a wall. In the walled world, Pinker completely closes himself up. He is obsessed with his own space and cannot break through the shackles of spirit. He is lonely and desperate and has no hope for life. He healed in the world of the wall but had to endure more damage given to him outside the wall. His spiritual world is full of scars. This wall is not the only one Pinker, everyone living in this world has their own wall built for themselves. The wall is formed at every stage of their life journey. This spiritual composition seals them up, becomes numb and extreme, and grows with their growth in life, and finally breaks. "The Wall" is to show us the whole process of the formation of the wall. It is dominated by inner contemplation, using the "wall" as a metaphor for the shackles of human nature. After experiencing various setbacks and failures, it will no longer sink, no longer escape, and bravely break the shackles of the “wall” and move towards a new world. This may be the case. The real meaning of the film. The film constructs too many questions for us, but it doesn't tell us an answer. It requires us to think, or it takes a lifetime to explore.
Such classic films appeared in Europe, reflecting the various crises of the capitalist society, and reflecting the forward-looking Europeans' reflection and exploration of their destiny and future.
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