Amidst all the excitement lately I made it to a midnight showing of Pink Floyd the Wall at Camera 3. I probably won't make it out to another midnight movie until Rock 'n' Roll High School in July. I'd never seen The Wall, but I am familiar with Pink Floyd's music in a cursory way. I actually think Dark Side of the Moon is a better album, but what can you do?
I thought the animated sequences were really great. You can really tell that animation director Gerald Scarfe worked in political cartoons....the animation from the film had the same sort of drippy, evil looking feel that political cartoons get.
The whole concept is kind of overwrought, but I think that anyone who's ever felt really sad can get understand what Roger Waters is trying to get at... "The Wall" as a metaphor seems almost too easy, but at the same time you can't think of anything more apt. It's something insurmountable, uniform, soulless...it is the problem, but we're all a part of it. And blah, blah blah.
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