Pink Floyd - The Wall (Digipack) (DVD)

...secret of being a huge Pink Floyd fan. The Wall is one of my favourite of their albums and I vividly recalled several images from the film of the same name, from when I saw it in 1988. Last night, I decided to watch it again to see what I felt about it this time. It's not an entirely pleasant experience. You have been warned! The Wall is a film starring Bob Geldof as Pink, the lead character. Using the Floyd's album soundtrack as a background, we ...
...fields of crucifixes dripping blood. Pink Floyd are not afraid of making political statements! Scarfe's animation evokes a variety of emotional responses. One of the sequences is very sexual with flowers impregnating in a way which feels violent like rape. But some of the visual images are beautiful, my favourite being the leaf rolling over in the breeze, becoming a naked faceless body. The visual images used in the film are vivid and often disturbing. ...

KarenUK 17.08.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Pink Floyd - The Wall (Digipack) (DVD)

...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 ...
...ANDALOU. Both disturbing and bedazzling, PINK FLOYD: THE WALL is a must-see film for any music lover." This is what DVD was made for: 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 ...

tilly77 17.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Pink Floyd - The Wall (Digipack) (DVD)

...played in this film by pink Floyd are : The Thin Ice, Another Brick in the Wall, & Young Lust , etc. the metaphors in the film were numerous IE @ the end children picking up debris from an exploding wall shows how when ever there is anything like a war or a attempted/coup it is always the next generation that has to pick up the pieces & suffers, This film lasts approximately 95 Min's long, shortly after they made this film pink Floyd disbanded ...
...story line is: ==the character pink (played by roger waters) is sitting in his room having flash backs of his past, he remembers how he launched an army of fascists in a campaign to clear up all non perfect people, and the events that lead up to it, including his child hood & how his dad died in a war, in the end he is up against a judge whom sentences him to be 'exposed to his peers' == Full song list == In the Flesh? The Thin Ice Another Brick ...

gigm 27.10.2007 (29.10.2007) · Read full review
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