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?
shareThe poster that said if you were to film a nervous breakdown got it down the best. That is basically what it is.
Pink never had a strong father role in his life. His mother was overly protective to the point that he never learned how to cope with both simple and traumatic emotional disturbances on his own. Think of what would happen to an animal that is normally raised in the wild if it were born into human care, domesticated, and then tossed out into the wild on its own.
His school teacher belittled him and chastised him for his poems that he would write in class. There was a strong level of emotional abuse he endured from his teacher. A poetic mind likes Pink's needs to be allowed to flourish, not restrained.
His wife had an affair while he was away on tour. We really don't know if Pink was faithful himself as he is accused of breaking homes in The Trial. What we do know is that he did not take his wife's betrayal well at all, and ultimately resulted in the construction of his psychological wall.
The mind and heart are not meant to be shut off emotionally. When a person does this, it causes lots of problems such as psychosis, megalomania, suicidal tendencies, destruction of moral, among many other mental problems. The wall within itself is a MAJOR problem. It provides comfort and numbness at a high cost.
In short, he is very, VERY emotionally disturbed and unstable. I think a lot of us go through what he does at one point or another, but his was cummulative. He never recovered from any occurance before getting hit with the next.
...Then there's also the drug and alcohol abuse...
- The General has spoken.
Never underestimate the power of parents and other influential adults to turn the psyche of a sensitive child inside out.
yes that's true - it can ruin your life to have your assertiveness and independent thought assaulted and/or stripped from you whilst young.
Is this the return to Oz?
The grass is dead, the gold is brown
and the sky has claws.
The guy never knew his father. He had a weird attachment to his mother so he could not connect to women. The wife had an affair and left him because he had a wall she couldnt penetrate. The trauma of childhood, things you attach to abandoning you, trying to fit in, thinking fame will make you happy and it doesn't. All just bricks in the wall we put around ourselves to protect our hearts and in the end the wall doesn't keep out the bad but just keeps us from feeling the good. And the perks of bring a rock star like groupies dont bring Pink happiness.
That's my take on the wall...and great anti war film. That's what happens when countries get their men killed in war thereby numbing and screwing up the fatherless kids left behind.
Also I think it is a great statement about idolizing people and how quickly that could turn into another fascist society. Zombies without independent thought...looking for a leader and finding one but turns out the guy is very messed up. Lots of subplots in this movie. I love it quite frankly. Watching it right now (in the background) as I do construction work on my house.
Lena
"Lena is high and mighty" IMDB-- posters 10/13
The guy never knew his father. He had a weird attachment to his mother so he could not connect to women. The wife had an affair and left him because he had a wall she couldnt penetrate. The trauma of childhood, things you attach to abandoning you, trying to fit in, thinking fame will make you happy and it doesn't. All just bricks in the wall we put around ourselves to protect our hearts and in the end the wall doesn't keep out the bad but just keeps us from feeling the good. And the perks of bring a rock star like groupies dont bring Pink happiness.
That's my take on the wall...and great anti war film. That's what happens when countries get their men killed in war thereby numbing and screwing up the fatherless kids left behind.
Also I think it is a great statement about idolizing people and how quickly that could turn into another fascist society. Zombies without independent thought...looking for a leader and finding one but turns out the guy is very messed up. Lots of subplots in this movie. I love it quite frankly. Watching it right now (in the background) as I do construction work on my house.
Lena
"Lena is high and mighty" IMDB-- posters 10/13
He's Bob Geldolf, that's his probelm
Tucker's Law: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3Ou9xBAlI
Wasn't this one of Roger Waters's biggest problems with the movie? That he felt it didn't let the viewer sympathize with Pink enough? Either way, I still felt bad for him.
sharei may be completely wrong in this, but there were some scenes when he was little showing his relationship with his mother which wasn't the best to say the least
so many movies, so little time
It astounds me that anyone could think having a "comfortable" middle-class upbringing precludes you from discontent and despondency. If anything, a so-called comfy, unchallenging consumer lifestyle only helps to breed dissatisfaction, where material plenitude quickly turns into complacency and numbness, leaving one superficially sated but utterly unfulfilled of anything of true substance. Why do you think it's the well-off - and yes, successful - who are often the least happy?
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