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BSA206 - Pink Floyd, the Wall




The animation acted as a catalyst to emotion and representational symbology. EG at one time two flowers are courting, one being lured by a beautiful open flower, representing the female, drawing him in, as he gets closer, they engage, and then fly into a maelstrom of violent embrace, swirling and fighting like a whirlpool. They transform and ebb and flow, revealing their true forms, and then split. But the flower reveals itself again, baiting him in, he grows closer, and she consumes him.

The movie paces in a way that teases you, making you guess what each part means. Starting with a slow zoom into a hotel room, we ask ourselves what is this scene even about? It's slowness and simpleness makes us attentive and ask ourselves for sense. It then pretty much briefly goes over the entire movie, we have images thrown at us, planted like seeds in our minds. The boy loses his father in the war, the boy grows up, rejected by those he tries to grow close to, denied his pet, and when he tries to do things himself, his pet literally dies. He goes to school, where he is taught and institutionalised on how to be accepted, the way things are, what he must do and be to conform with everyone else, he refuses, he revolts. He finds his outlet, a woman, a source to fufil his abyss, what his father left. He takes it forgranted, perhaps not the right kind of fufillment that he can see, and as he gets lost in his own head, she gives up and leaves him, and he falls apart. Falling into a deep freefall of emotion, turmoil and the wild insanity of his own mind. His wall, his coping mechanism, no longer working, having been avoiding everyone to protect himself, he now has no one. I can relate. His people, those that want him for what he can do, then 'save' him, forcing him into the role that they want him to fufill, to conform.


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