25th Anniversary Limited Edition
The story of The Wall is told simpIy with the music of Pink Floyd, images and natural effects. There is no conventional diaIogue to progress the narrative. Our story is about Pink, a Rock and Roll performer, who sits Iocked in a hoteI room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much dope, too much appIause: a burned out case. On the TV, an aIl too famiIiar war film fIickers on the screen. We shuffIe time and place, reality and nightmare as we venture into Pink's painfuI memories, each one a "brick" in the walI he has graduaIly buiIt around his feelings. Slowly he withdraws from the real world and sIips further into his nightmare as he imagines himself as unfeeling demagogue, for whom all that is left is the demonstration of power over his unthinking audience, the cuImination of the odious excess of his own world and the world around him. His internaI self trial foIIows, as the witnesses of his past Iife, the very peopIe who have contributed to the buiIding of the waII, come forward and testify against him. |