tahaa-17267 I watched "The Wall" again and again. 'Cause it's just explaining my life's emptiness. I just want to live without any religion, any ideology, any race, any relationship... I just want to live with myself. I just want to think about everything, draw and write about everything... Actually "The Wall" is not my type, usually i'm watching Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Tarr, Bergman and some directors' like these. But even The Wall is a different type movie, it's explaining a lot of things that unavailable to explain. Just must be watched...

sohib-78424 if u don't like pink Floyd's music its normal not to like this movie cause it talks about depression and losing his father when he was a baby then miss treated in school ....its a little bit bizarre do doubt about that.. so it depends on your taste if like to watch a man with huge depression then you will enjoy it and if u like pink floyd and wondered how did they come the idea of writing "the wall " or " comfortably numb " it would be very useful

theCoffeeGirl I'm not the biggest Pink Floyd band (they're in my top 10, but not top 5) nor am I a huge fan of The Wall (it is not in my top 20 albums, nor is it my favorite Pink Floyd album, which is Animals) so my review is not biased by fandom.This is simply put an incredible musical. Many might argue "it's not a musical" but do musicals need to have dancing? Is dancing the definition of musicals?I'm not a fan of musicals because of dancing, but this film is not a musical without dancing. It's not Broadway and it's not show tunes. It is a rock musical, with a completely different kind of music. The songs are sadder, angrier, more depressed and the picture follows the music.Show tunes about love make for soapy and sappy films. Sad and angry songs result in a much darker picture.There are some things I don't like about this film. In the album Pink cheats on his wife, then she leaves him for someone else. This makes Pink the architect of his own misery. In the film, however, Pink first learns of his wife's unfaithfulness before he starts sleeping with groupies. This makes him a victim. But he's already a victim of many things - overprotective mother, school system, lack of father. We don't need another element for his victimhood. They could've used that to give us another side to Pink's personality rather than hammer in the idea of him being a victim.I also don't like some of the animation. Some of it is great, but the trial, particularly the judge, is a miss.The additional songs and re-recorded pieces are great. What Shall We Do Now? is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs.I wish they would make more films like this, either entirely live action or animated.This is what musicals should be. 9/10.

Fuzzy Wuzzy "We don't need no education.......We don't need no thought-control.".... So, proclaims the lyrics of songwriter, Roger Waters.Well, if Waters really thinks we don't need these things, then I'd like to know what the heck this joker thinks we 'do' need. This movie, nor the rest of Waters' lyrics give me any clue.I don't know why Waters is belly-aching so much about education and thought-control. It looks like he did pretty well by them. He's rich. He's famous. Does anyone realistically believe that if Waters didn't have any education and/or if he wasn't subjected to some form of thought-control that he would be in the same boat that he is right now!!?? I seriously doubt it. But who knows.And speaking about 'education' & 'thought-control'.....The way I look at it, Waters' lyrics and music are just that. His words are, in a sense, a type of (informal) education and, along with his lyrics, the hypnotic effect of some of his music could, in its own way, induce some honest-to-goodness thought-control. Well, it could. At least I think so.Uh.....I know this really isn't turning into much of a movie review (I'll get to that business soon enough. I promise), but before I veer off this tangent, I've got one more thing to say about another segment of Waters' lyrics."When we were kids and went to school there were 'certain' teachers who would hurt the kids in any way they could." Well, I don't know about where Waters went to school, but where I was educated (middle-class, suburbia) it wasn't so much the teachers (yeah, there were some real arseholes) that would hurt the kids in any way, it was 'the other kids' who were putting each other thru' pure hell in any way they could. I ain't joking.All the relentless teasing, and betrayals, and pushing, and shoving, and bullying (on & on, year after year) that went on at my schools was enough to turn any sensitive, little tyke into a professional wall-builder in no time at all. The biggest bricks for his or her wall would come directly from their classmates, not from their ass-wipe instructors. (No Good! Do It Again!!) Anyway, enough of that, onto my movie review. I'll make it short and sweet.I don't think anyone would argue that bringing 'The Wall' to the big screen was an incredible undertaking for any director, even Alan Parker. I certainly give Parker and his film crew a lot of credit for their efforts to fuse dynamite-imagery with explosive rock music. This dazzlingly choreographed combination works surprisingly well most of the time.But, personally, I think Parker should have left 'The Wall' alone. He surely could have presented us with something just as impressive without the confines of Waters' cynical lyrics and the audiences' preconceived idea of how everything should have appeared thru' their mind's eye.Oh,well......"I have become comfortably numb!"