During many years, the movie “The Wall”, since the
release of it, left a lot to talk about. For lot of people, it represents
something different in relation to the protagonist, which was Pink Floyd. The
songs and the events that are shown, during the movie, let us understand
clearly the meaning of the protagonist life and the movie. After studying it in
depth, the wall may mean a separation from the protagonist’s bad emotions
within the problems he had to suffer and his real life.
To begin with, the movie it’s a mix of emotions,
problems, etc. These things, represents a meaning through a mental wall which
is an escape from real life, and the control that is exercised in the society,
particularly in the principal character. The mental wall’s bricks, may be the
particular facts that happened such as his fatherless childhood, his
domineering mother, the out of touch education system which is centered on “producing”
a particularly type of man and the government that treats citizens like chess
pieces. These facts, helped out to create this wall, so Roger, the protagonist could
live freely in a way in a parallel universe without being controlled and
suffering among his life problems. He escaped from reality, where his wife was
unfaithful.
On the other hand, there are few people who refute
this meaning without too much evidence or reasons. Songs which sound during the
movie may support this idea of a mental wall to try to escape from control. “Another
brick in the wall” it is a clearly example which validates the meaning
previously explained due to the fact that it express Roger’s suffering because
of the problems he had. We hear of the first grief stricken cries of Roger's
lost father when it says "Daddy's flown across the ocean, Leaving just a
memory, Snapshot in the family album, Daddy what else did you leave for me?” In
the second part of the song Pin Floyd says “We don't need no education, we don't
need no thought control." It is another example of the control that
the government, his mother and the education system tried to impose him, and he
really doesn’t want this at all.
To conclude, the wall means an escape to freedom from
Roger’s own suffered life. In my opinion, it’s a complex meaning which it’s
really interesting to understand but difficult to find out. How Pink Floyd manages
to escape from his reality, how he criticize the control masses and the way he
manages himself to fight against it during the movie it’s really amazing.
