Tear down the wall

"Loosely based on the life story of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's original front man (who was kicked out of the band for his bizarre and disturbing behavior only to go insane shortly thereafter), PINK FLOYD: THE WALL stars Bob Geldof as Pink, a mentally damaged man who has gone from a hopeful child artist to a burned-out rock star drifting away from reality. As Pink festers in his hotel room, elements of his abusive childhood come back to haunt him until he begins to descend into absolute madness.
Director Alan Parker's intense and fully realized film interpretation of the English band's classic album, THE WALL melds whimsical fantasy with dark Shakespearean drama. The film makes innovative use of sets, costumes, and special effects to create a unique surrealistic strangeness worthy of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's UN CHIEN ANDALOU. Both disturbing and bedazzling, PINK FLOYD: THE WALL is a must-see film for any music lover."

Previously unreleased footage

25 minute Making-Of documentary - 'The Other Side of the Wall'

Commentary by Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe

45 minute interview documentary 'Retrospective'

Technical Sound Set-up guide

Dolby Digital 5.1

Running Time 95 Minutes

Anyone who loves Pink Floyd or this film must own this DVD for the sound, the clear picture, the extras.

The music in the film is different to the album of the same name but not much and they complement each other - what is truly amazing is how Alan Parker marries the music perfectly to the images on screen and how the storyline breathes life into the songs in a way that films like Tommy etc fail to do.

The first brick is the death of his father in WWII - When The Tigers Broke Free - the next is his school life where he is tormented by his teacher who pores scorn on his poetry. Then comes the infection he gets from a rat he finds on the canal and the illness that nearly kills him.

It is at this point that Pink returns to the stage reinvented has a fascistic idol and leader of a Nazi-style entourage. It is here that he takes the stage and sings that Pink isn't well and has stayed at his hotel and what stands before them is a surrogate who is there to test their loyalty before launching into an anti-gay, anti-jew, anti-black , anti-everything rant that has the crowds baying for blood.

But it is after Pink reaches this extreme that the wall starts to crack and all of the participants in his life come forward as part of The Trial - they tear into him and his weaknesses until eventually the Judge proclaims that the wall be teared down.