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June 7, 2009
I watched a DVD of Pink Floyd's The Wall last night. This is a 1982 film by British director Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall.
The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters and it traces the life of the fictional protagonist, Pink Floyd, from his boyhood days in war-torn England to his self-imposed isolation as a world-renowned rock star, leading to a climax that is as questionably cathartic as it is destructive.
It was the cartoon imagery by Gerald Scarfe, (the the film designer and animator), that I found the most impressive, not the music. The collaboration between Scarfe and Waters should be ed celebrated eg., the animation sequence depicting the German bombing campaign over England during World War II, set to the song "Goodbye Blue Sky".
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