OK, his daddy died in the war - those were tough times for most people. And his wife screwed around while he was on tour, an occupational hazard of the rock'n'roll lifestyle. But he seemed to have a very comfortable middle-class upbringing and ended up a successful rock star. What are we supposed to feel sorry for?
shareNot getting any pudding left him alienated and isolated. I don't think we're supposed to feel too sorry for him after the boyhood years though... Here's something I just pulled outta my a##- Maybe his mother was so overprotective that he never leaned how to cope with life's conflicts, which led to a life of escape and detachment, which was ultimately unfulfilling and destructive no matter how successful he became. Gee, now I do feel sorry for him.
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Lol is that for real? I had never heard that before, but it wouldn't surprise me. Does he have that reputation?
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My take is that he felt smothered (not necessarily for good reason) by his mother so he rejected her, replacing her with his wife. Then he was too cold to his wife (rejecting her twice during the "Mother" sequence), and realizes during his tour that he's going to lose his wife--who is all he has left. Note that from his room, he phones her five times, and tends to get very upset when he can't get through (smashes a wine glass with his foot, smashes a glass into the phone, etc.). I have actually studied the movie very carefully and lay out a thorough explanation in a blog post:
http://www.albertnet.us/2012/02/bride-of-pink-floyd-wall.html
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The point isn't to feel sorry for him... listen to the music without the movie it may clarify things :)
shareBack in the late 70's and early 80's we weren't so eager to qualify people with diseases. We (me and my friends) just considered him your garden variety crazy person. I think that's what they were going for in this movie. Who the frick cares what his afflictions were? The guy was nuts and a famous rock god. Hell, pick your rock star - Pink is any and all of them!
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If you can't feel anything for him than possibly you can't feel anything for yourself....?
I guess if you were to film a nervous breakdown it would look like this. Its not one specific thing its all of them, a 1-2-3 of One Damned Thing After Another. If you want to keep from blowing your brains out you usually need to re-evaluate some of your assumptions, such as 'If i have a comfortable middle class upbringing & become a successful rockstar I'm somehow better than everyone else & won't feel pain & have difficulty with life', which is exactly the kind of attitude that leads fans to goosestep to Pink the Fuhrer in the movie. Waters retracing his steps through the maze leaves clues for others who are willing but otherwise it just seems like an incoherent pity parade with pop hooks, true.
But there's honest stuff here- The rock dictator connection is dead-on & makes me want to try reading Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism again. The wall itself is an apt symbol for the emotional body armor everyone here develops to live in this emotional war zone but later on deadens them to any feeling. And that leads to things like shooting heroin & screwing lots of groupies & committing mass murder just to feel alive again (Remember how its only children left standing at the end, too).
I'd be lethargically depressed too if I had been given the task to fill the shoes of Roger Waters.
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