Apart from unification of Germany by tearing down Berlin wall, does it have any other significance, esp. within the context of the movie I mean? Was the guy lobotomized to 'tear down the wall' he'd built up?
shareIf you recall the judge's sentence:
"Since my friend you have revealed your deepest fear. I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. Tear down the wall."
It's just that. Mental illness is, except for in completely super beyond obvious cases, not visible on the surface. In many cases, a mentally ill person would rather keep it all inside, wall themselves up rather than let someone get close and help. By the end of the film, his actions can no longer be justified as, "Oh, he's just an artist, he's creative/eccentric: That's just what artists are like." He clearly needs help and everyone around him can see that. The wall was tore down so people could get in there and save him. Therapy and medication.
The Wall is an emotional one he's built around himself. Didn't you notice he was quite emotionless and cold throughout the film? It cost him his marriage and his sanity. When the wall comes down he can act like a functioning human being again.
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Except when you listen to the end of the album, Outside the wall ends but starts again at the beginning by someone saying - "isn't this where I came in...."
So the album is a continuous loop!
What i always gathered from "isn't this where we came in?" is that it's not necessarily referring directly to Pink but implying that future generations will experience what Pink has. We'll all have our own "bricks in the wall". History will repeat itself.
shareThis movie came out years before the berlin wall came down so it has nothing whatsoever to do with that.
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