There are several main messages everywhere in the film, the first is anti-war, the second is against the system, the third is the emotions and six desires in the world, hurt and regret, the gap between desire and ideal, and so on. It is relatively a portrayal of the members of PINK FLOYD. After growing up after the Second World War, in addition to being confused and in an era when everything is fresh and curious, the film and the band are inextricably linked. One of the relationships is that this is a semi-autobiography of Roger Waters, written by him. His father was unfortunately killed in World War II, and he grew up in an environment that yearned for his father's love in his childhood. His mother was attached to others and ignored him. The scene at the park represents his wish to have his father play with him, and he even walked up to someone else's father to be his own, but was rejected. When he was a child, he took out his father's military uniform to see things and think about people. Even though he was a soldier who survived and returned to the country at the railway station, unfortunately there was no father figure in the crowd. The only thing left is a brick engraved with his father's name. It can be seen that the screenwriter hates war so much because there is a shadow of childhood.
The second is the opposition from the system. The lyrics bring out "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control" and sing the children's reflection on the education system. The mainstream education only knows how to instill knowledge and ignore creativity. , students become victims of cramming education, only know how to memorize by rote. Teachers only know how to make fun of students who have dreams. In terms of expression, they use a meat shredder as a metaphor for students being completely smashed by the education system. The train means that every student has the same idea and no creativity. At the end, the group of students rebelled and sang "Teacher, Leave them kids alone", which was quite "pleasant", which was an accusation of the students against the education system itself. This piece of music titled "Another Bricks In The Wall" shows how the education system destroys children's physical and mental development. It makes us think about what education has taught students and in which direction the so-called education is heading.
In addition to the education system, the film also shows that the establishment of totalitarian regimes is silent. For example, Mr. Pink (the protagonist named after the band in the movie), who was exhausted physically and mentally and chose to seek death, wanted to end his life but refused to die. After being rescued, he asked to hold a concert. At this time, his skin has changed and he has become a demon. Those hyperplasia skins burst his resentment again and again. This is a turning point in the movie. When he tore open the skin again, he was already someone else, and even shouted "Mr Pink is sick", when God and the truth were dead, his heart died, and he began to demand more hatred and discrimination Homosexuals, ignoring the existence of love. In this part, it is assumed that he is imitating Hitler's totalitarian means. He once hated war, but turned from a good person to a bad person, all because he became incompetent love and lacked trust in people.
There are certain reasons why the protagonist changes from a good person to a bad person. On the one hand, it is brought about by the shadow of childhood, and the lyrics are the dialogue of the movie. The singer's desire to be loved and noticed is vaguely revealed in the lyrics of "Mother". Naihe love disappeared with him, he shouted with all his might but no one heard, the responsibility of mother seemed to be disappeared. The family love has been lost, and the love is also so bad that fate is destroyed, and the lover leaves him when the love is fiery. And he didn't know how to face it, and like a madman, he smashed the objects that survived in the world one by one, as if he had never survived.
In trying to commit suicide, trying to shed excess blood from his body, he could only live and survive as a corpse when both body and mind were in hell. For him, the world has long been destroyed, destroyed by the physical war and by the struggle in his heart. There is only emptiness left in life, only emptiness.
The movie also added elements of animation, using animation to express the inner world of the protagonist one by one, just like the big bird he is afraid of and the death he is afraid of. On the one hand, he is afraid of death but wants to touch this realm. Animation makes the film more vivid, expressing the "fear" that is physically impossible in another art form.
The Wall means that in addition to the struggle within people, it also brings out the atmosphere that pervaded in the 1970s and 1980s, the Cold War; the struggle headed by communism and capitalism. Civil war broke out in small countries, international political instability, etc. There is a conjecture that the director hopes to bring out the belief that it was the Berlin Wall at that time, which not only represented capitalism or communism, but also represented the division of the main body of the country, and many people died guarding in order to escape to Xintiandi. under the gun. If you've seen the movie, you might as well watch Pink Floyd's concert in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, so that music can once again liberate the local people, the world's disputes, and of course our inner world.
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