Introduction
Pink Floyd The Wall is an unique and classic film on rock music in history, known as “one of the most remarkable and arresting products of late-twentieth-century British popular culture” (Jorge Sacide Romero & Luis Miguel Varela Cabo, 2006:45). This film is directed by Alan Parker in 1982, which is based on an album The Wall (1979) of Pink Floyd. During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Pink Floyd The Wall was shown to critics and audiences. Roger Ebert, a film critic, praised it as “one of the great modern musicals.” ( The film is boldly filled with a large number of brutal and naked scenes to reflect dark themes like war, violence, sex, and drugs. Director Alan Parker uses stream of consciousness and surrealistic techniques ( to sublimate the music of Pink Floyd to an aggressive and screaming bull. By in-depth discussing the audio-visual language of Pink Floyd The Wall, this essay will reveal a series of problems reflected by the film, such as family relationship, educational system, romantic concepts, self-awareness and social relations. Pink Floyd The Wall displays three eternal themes of human being---life and death, love and hate, war and peace, brings great visual shocks to viewers. In order to know how and to what extent it affects human hearts, this essay will first generally introduce the historical background of Pink Floyd The Wall, then analyse the film in terms of the pace-time and living era of the hero, screen image building, and the representative popular arts it used, finally move on to analyse the profound thoughts on war, education and interpersonal caring.
Historical Background
1. Alan Parker and Pink Floyd
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2. Background of Pink Floyd The Wall
3. Analysis on Pink Floyd The Wall