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Thursday, May 6, 2004
The Wall
I'm not talking about the concept album, I'm talking about the movie.
If you haven't seen this movie, it's a shame. The movie's 22 years old, and still, to this day, it stands right up on its two legs.
There are many striking things about this movie. But the thing is, at the moment, I don't have the time to digress about them--and it would be wasted breath, too. It's better to get to the point.
Many people seem to say, "This is a movie you watch when you're high." They're wrong. This movie makes perfect sense. It's like looking into Roger Waters, and seeing everything that made him.
My column this issue--the one that's the story about Kid--was influenced by this movie. The piece, which most readers didn't like, "Banging Your Heart," was influenced by the wall.
The Wall's like looking inside yourself. You see your psyche in what Roger Waters shows of his. The movie's just genius. I love this movie. It reminds me of how I write things sometimes, and there's maggots in the movie, too. It's as if this movie has always been some part of me, with the maggots and all. It's really strange like that.
This is a movie that'll stay with you a long time. . .that'll keep making you think. The beauty of this movie is you can think of it in so many ways. The ambiguity of it is what makes it so great--you're just thrown into this movie, this thing, and you come out of it however you come out.
At the end, when "The Trial" is played, and the big worm--who's the honor--reprimands Pink is amazing.
When "Goodbye Blue Sky" is playing, it's like watching what the human race is. In it, we're shown an artistic representation of a dove turning into a large plane that looks like a monster. We're shown people dying from radiation poisoning. We're shown the destruction war brings.
War isn't just a physical thing, it's a mental, psychologic thing. Inside us there's always a war.
It's shown that after the war, the humans rebuild. That's the human race right there. Just surviving.
There's one so beautiful scene where two flowers move around and twist and contort, and they come into one another, penetrate, and what you see is a flower, but it looks like penetration in sex. The flower then turns into this big, ugly, monster. It looks like it kills everything. "Empty Spaces" is what plays during this scene, and it's such a perfect, amazing, wonderful scene. It'll stay with me forever.
Basically, what The Wall is about is a human life, and all the things that happen. It's done in an amazing way.
Just see it.
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