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I think the story of the film is amazing. At Los Angeles, in a hotel room, a rock star whose name is Pink decides to build a wall made of bricks after he took stock of his life. He wants to build it for several reasons: a lot of people made him suffer, especially his mother his wife and his teacher, he wants to protect his identity because school made him faceless and he feels frustrated by his past life. But when he's going crazy, he is taken to a concert but he's still travelling through his fears and his dreams. The wall is in himself and he'll have to tear it down and come back to reality. I saw this film when I was fifteen and it enchanted me because I'm a big fan of Pink Floyd. I saw it recently and curiously It left me unsatisfied. Alan Parker and Roger Waters have made an audacious and seductive film and this one features some clever visual and ringing brainwaves. Moreover Bob Geldof is quite convincing in the main role of this helpless and outraged man; and the animation sequences are very successful and they epitomize Pink's inner universe, particularly the last sequence with the hideous judge. However the screenplay of the film is very repetitive: when a lot of pictures are passing by very quickly, the film looks like a huge clip and this one is multiplying the flashy effects. As a conclusion, even if this film isn't a masterpiece, it's probably Parker's best musical film, at least better than the boring "The Commitments"
dbdumonteil 17 May 2002
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