Most disturbing segments.
What would you guys say are the most disturbing segments from Pink Floyd's The Wall?
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One that has always made me sad is Comfortably Numb. The rat that he kept as a pet was so cute stumbling around in the hay. After Pink's bedridden episode, he comes back to find the rat in the same place, but dead, and has to dispose of it.
shareThere's a deleted scene in the song Hey you, were Pinky is scratching the wall.
sharePink shaving his chest and cutting his nipples, ugh...
Young Pink placing a bullet on the train track then a cattle truck rolls by full of people with distorted faces.
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Duty Now For The Future
Wow, those were the two I was thinking. Something about him snapping the blade in two sticks with me like almost no other image in the film. And of course, the train, very much a parallel to Auschwitz.
share>Pink shaving his chest and cutting his nipples, ugh...
That and the trial scene, although after multiple viewings it makes sense. The trial scene was more disturbing for me because I could easily relate to the overprotective mother of Pink who sheltered him so much from the world around him ('Why'd he ever have to leave me?') that he lost the ability to connect with women. Reminds me of my mother. Gawd, why are these women even allowed to breed! They should be institutionalized rather than allowed to corrupt their children
The movie is good but hovers between realism and unrealism. For instance the reaction by the bald teacher is over the top and unrealistic. So is the reaction of the students. I mean, at least in my class there was no kid who would dare to vandalize the classroom like that, not even the macho ones who don't hesitate to get into group fights. And our teachers never reacted like the bald man about poems; rather, they either threw stuff at us like the chalkboard eraser, give us a slap that would prolly make you almost deaf, etc. No lengthy talk like that and caning was only occasionally offered as punishment. And if the teacher was a female then she would make us kneel down/stand atop our bench by holding our ears for the next few hours or rest of the day, depending on how cranky she is, or make you do like 30+ ear squats. Bottom line, our teachers did not have time or patience to talk or explain reasons behind their rash action at length :)
The children falling into the meat grinder.
shareIt's a disturbing segment on it's own, but the most disturbing moment for me is the most disturbing because of some deeply ingrained nightmares. I was, 5 or so: My dad and my uncle are watching The Wall at home on VHS, my dad steps out of the room for a bit, I'm doing my own thing NOT watching The Wall. So my dad is away and the "Empty Spaces" segment comes on. My uncle, being a *beep* up, yells for me because, "A cartoon is on!!" I don't think it was his intent to scar me for life, but ta-da.
I think all the sexual imagery was lost on me, I hope, but the flowers becoming hideous monsters that tear into each other and start bleeding all over the place, that translated pretty well into my 5 year old brain and nightmares for the next 2 weeks. My dad comes into the room, I'm staring at the TV shaking. He yells, "What the hell is wrong with you?!" At my uncle (thank God he never had kids of his own) and pulls me out of the room. Glad he got to me before the What Shall We Do Now segment with the skull bashing.
To this day, hearing that song, it's a dark song to begin with: But it just tears deep into my subconscious fears.
As an adult, putting aside personal experience, strangely enough it is the skull bashing in What Shall We Do Now that I find most disturbing. If only I would have stuck around for the rest of the "Cartoon" I would have been shell shocked for life. Gerald Scarfe can make some *beep* up animation. The video for Welcome to The Machine is also done by him and is equally disturbing. He animates a decapitated head slowly decomposing. He's a twisted bastard for sure.
lying in the pool bleeding.
that's disturbing to me.
It might sound silly, but the first time I watched The Wall I was at my (ex-)boyfriend's friend's place, we were all high on cannabis watching it in the living room and for some reason the sudden scene during the song "Mother" of Pink seeing his father's skeleton in his parents' bed startled the fvck out of me. There were several other scenes and sequences I found disturbing as well, particularly a few animated ones, but I remember that scene really got me, probably because it was so out of the blue.
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