At school, he is caught writing poems in class and humiliated by the teacher who reads a poem (part of verse 2 of the song "Money"). One item he finds, a bullet, is placed on the track of an oncoming train, where he sees non-descript people riding the train. He discovers a scroll from "kind old King George" and other relics from his father's military service and death ("When the Tigers Broke Free, Part II"). Pink longs for a father figure ("Another Brick in the Wall, Part I").
#THE WALL PINK FLOYD MOVIE#
The stampede of a modern rock concert is compared to soldiers running out of the foxholes to engage in combat ("In the Flesh?") The movie then flashes back to Pink as a young English boy growing up in the early 1950s. The reference is almost certainly to the death of Roger Waters' real-life father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who died in combat in Italy during Operation Shingle (the Battle of Anzio) in February 1944. During the following scenes, it is revealed that Pink's father, a British soldier, was killed in action during World War II during Pink's infancy. The opening music is not by Pink Floyd, but is the Vera Lynn recording of "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot". He is first seen in a quiet hotel room, having trashed it. The protagonist (and unreliable narrator) of the film, Pink (Bob Geldof) is a rock star, one of several reasons behind his apparent depressive and detached emotional state. Though the film's symbolism is open to interpretation, the wall itself clearly reflects a sense of isolation and alienation.
The question becomes if he or anyone else can do anything to tear down the wall in a meaningful way. His response is to go in the opposite direction, by building a figurative wall around him to isolate himself from the rest of the world, but not before showing graphically his feelings on different gut levels. The most recent failure in that true connection to someone or something else is his marriage, when on tour, he discovers that his wife back home is cheating on him. Being a rock star, he is often wanted more because of what he is than who he is. That childhood includes not having a male role model with his father having been killed in the war, his overprotective mother smothering him, and an oppressive school system quashing his natural creativity. Because of his childhood, he has always tried to make meaningful emotional connections to other living creatures. A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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