I've seen this movie several times and have always thought the best scene to end on would have been the wall crumbling, but yet it ends with the kids hauling rubbish and one of them finding a molatov cocktail. Anyone have any idea why they ended the movie this way? Thanks!
shareThe film elevates some of the songs that I didn't care for nearly as much in album form (Sides 2 and 3 especially). The highlight of the film for me is the animation, particularly in The Trial, Goodbye Blue Sky, and What Shall We Do Now? (which I really miss whenever I listen to the original album... but then when I watch the film/listen to the live album, I miss the transition from Empty Spaces into Young Lust).
There is a bit of potentially stolen imagery from Ken Russell's Tommy: planes as crosses. And while the 1975 The Who film updates the story from 1921 to 1951, Roger Waters brought the parallelism the other direction in going from the Royal Fusiliers in WWII in The Wall to the same regiment in WWI with the first track on his Amused to Death album.
Parker has some really interesting input on the film in one or more of the DVD editions (it's been re-released a few times, and I believe there were features dropped and added at later times).
I haven't seen this film in years, but always liked a lot of it. Some of the more terrifying moments actually brought real fear. Nowadays, with Waters' constant regurgitation of the live show, I feel like any attempt at social relevance is lost. I had nightmares about that Run Like Hell sequence.