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Analisis The Wall
Analisis The Wall
Pink Floyd de su familia depende mucho del tipo de rol que cumple cada uno de estos, que de
alguna manera se entrelazan para formar en él una realidad totalmente paralela a la de los
demás.
Las situaciones traumáticas que tiene a lo largo de su vida van haciendo que se distancie un
poco de los demás y de la sociedad lo cual de alguna manera hace que él vea las cosas
distintas y se impone de cierto modo al capitalismo, la opresión, la guerra, la dificultad de
comunicación, al tipo de profesores y a la alineación del ser humano como un ente sin sentido,
que es producto de un sistema muy perverso.
Se deben tener todos estos puntos claros antes de analizar la visión de Pink y entender el
porqué de su delirio.
Podemos observar que existe en la película una madre muy apegada a Pink, que no le deja ser
libre, la cual esta siempre protegiéndole, y de alguna manera eso se puede observar al
comienzo cuando la señora de la limpieza quiere limpiar el cuarto de él, y a él le viene el
recuerdo de las cadenas y es para mi, una forma de mostrar que su madre nunca le dejo ser
libre y le mantuvo encerrado en su mundo. Y es como que quiere salir pero no puede, y lo
manifiesta al momento que esta en la piscina y se siente ahogado, asfixiado, y no puede salir.
Su madre al ser muy cortante lo mantuvo encerrado en le deseo de ella y esto hizo que Pink se
mantenga solo e infeliz. Se puede observar lo mismo en el episodio de la iglesia, cuando el
deseo de su madre era tramitar la perdida de su esposo y extiende este deseo a Pink para que
él tramite la perdida de su madre no la de él ya que su padre nunca estuvo ahí así que no tenía
nada que tramitar. Y en esta escena se puede observar eso, Pink jugando con un avión y
recordando que su padre le había abandonado.
Me parece interesante cuando Pink esta sentado en el piano y su esposa trata de llamar la
atención y cuando lo hace es como que el ya sabe que él no es nadie sin su madre y de alguna
eso mismo es lo que quiere su madre, ya que el deseo de ella es ser la única y es la única al
momento en que desecha a la mujerzuela. Al estar Pinky demasiado ligado a su mama busca y
en las canciones se observa que siempre esta buscando la opinión y aprobación de su madre
para con las mujeres y me parece excelente la actuación de Bob Geldof al acurrucarse como
un bebe que nos muestra el vinculo maternal que tiene con la madre.
La escena de la flor puede resumir el significado de lo que siente Pinky y es a su vez aquí en
donde se forma el delirio, cuando el ha dado todo por esa persona pensando en que seria
igual, ésta reacciona diferente y le destroza al momento en que ella le engaña y el se siente
solo y es en esa soledad donde brota la psicosis.
Al comienzo de la película Pink nos dice que el lleva una mascara y tiene odio frente al publico
y nos menciona que para poder entenderle el debe quitarse la mascara y bueno en primer lugar
se debe mencionar que a esto existe un punto importante, la guerra le afecta y la muerte de su
padre hace que no pueda contar con nadie como lo dije antes él se encuentra en el deseo de la
madre y como no tiene con quien expresarse mantiene un disfraz, pero él se lo debe sacar para
poder dar a conocer como es él por dentro, quitarse esa mascara y odiar a los demás, solo así
va a poder desquitarse y llegar a una catarsis, convirtiéndose en lo que antes odiaba. Y así la
vida de Pink entra en una depresión y tristeza en la que tendrá por toda su vida.
Pinky en el parque mira la felicidad de otros niños y él quiere estar como ellos, al no tener
padre le pregunta aun señor si le podría subir y cuando el hombre lo hace, la alegría en la cara
de Pink puede verse claramente; el ha encontrado una figura paterna, la cual es lo que le hace
falta y aquí vemos que es la primera vez que Pink realmente se da cuenta que no tiene padre,
una realidad que lo deja con un sentimiento de vacío y duda, aunque creo que de alguna
manera él es muy fuerte de carácter y mas tarde se lo ve leyendo el periódico y con sus
facciones se evidencia que esta tomando ya una responsabilidad de adulto, de padre.
A mi parecer el momento en que sabe que debe tomar esta responsabilidad es cuando
encuentra la carta en un estuche lleno de recuerdos, esta carta habla de la muerte de su padre
y en Pinky se observa que hay mucha amargura hacia el gobierno por quitarle a su padre. Y se
lo representa también en las canciones y a medida que suena la canción, Pink se viste con la
ropa de guerra de su padre y, mientras él se mira en el espejo, hay un rápido corte del joven
Pink en el uniforme y que da la apariencia de 2 cosas, la primera que esta representándose
como el joven que tiene que meterse en un sistema (así no quiera él) de irse a la guerra y
tomar esa responsabilidad por la “patria” y la otra es la de la que ya se hablo antes, tomar una
figura del padre, de responsabilidad hacia consigo mismo y hacia con su madre. Esta escena
es para mí como si mostrara la conexión entre padre e hijo, y algo que perdurará para siempre.
La madre al perder al papa de Pinky en la guerra desplaza los sentimientos de amor hacia su
hijo y de alguna manera Pinky se convierte en el soporte mental para su madre, pero a la final
él sabe que esta ligado mucho a su madre y es por eso también que no puede tramitar el duelo
de su padre cuando murió porque su padre nunca estuvo ahí, él nunca le conoció, el pobre
Pinky tramita el duelo de su madre.
Me parece excelente la parte en que Pinky se frota los brazos al ver la escena del perro negro y
es como que el perro tiene un amo y el amo le esta cuidando y acariciando pero a él nadie le
cuida y se frota de una manera intensa en la cual él quiere sentir el frote de su padre pero no lo
tiene y mas tarde se observa que él lo busca en la llegada de los militares que bajan del tren y
no lo encuentra ya que el tiene la ilusión de que su padre todavía este vivo, mas tarde con la
canción que todos cantan a mi parecer quiere dar cuenta de que todos los soldados que van a
la guerra deben ser traídos porque los hijos no podrían vivir sin la presencia de su padre.
Otro punto importante es que Pinky sabe que todos tenemos que morir tal como lo hizo su
padre, pero a mi parecer es como si él en primer lugar en su delirio no quiere y esto de estar
viendo la televisión es como que se hiciera la pregunta, ¿Porque nadie hace nada?, ya que se
da cuenta que el sistema esta diseñado para que la gente no pueda pensar y que siga
diferentes tipos de esquemas, de esta manera Pinky (que representa a Roger Waters) en su
catarsis quiere que la gente sepa como es él y lo que vivió y es por eso que comienza a odiar a
las personas y les grita en el concierto, porque para él no son hacen nada para cambiar el
sistema en el que todos estamos inmersos. Y lo que hace es convertirse en lo que odiaba y
para mi esa es su forma de catarsis.
Existen muchas cosas mas para analizar ya afuera de la visión que el tiene sobre los demás.
Una de ellas es la escena de la rata en la que se ve el lado sensible de pinky y a su vez él
cuida a la rata para que no se muera y es una forma de mostrar y desplazar los sentimientos
que tiene ocultos hacia la rata. Otra cosa importante es que se muestra que él esta solo en el
cuarto al momento en que vienen los doctores y en la canción es como que muestra que la
gente y personas que le rodean están ahí no para ayudarle sino para que simplemente salga al
concierto y toque. Y que de alguna manera la inyección que le ponen ese momento es como
para decirle que siempre va a ver una solución pero así va a ser toda su vida.
La escena de los gusanos que le comen puede dar 2 interpretaciones, la primera que es un
nuevo comienzo en el que Pinky va a dejar la mascara y va a ser un nuevo renacimiento. La
segunda interpretación puede ser que los gusanos le comen parea ser aceptado por la
sociedad y deja de ser como es él y se vuelve un sujeto que atrae a todos y piensa que todos le
aman. En este delirio él es el que va a dictaminar como se hacen las cosas.
Una película de 1982 dirigida por el director británico Alan Parker basada en el
álbum conceptual con el mismo nombre publicado en 1979.
El guión fue escrito por el vocalista/bajista de Pink Floyd, Roger Waters.
Una de las características resaltantes de la película es la poca cantidad de
diálogos, pero esto no afecta el impacto de la misma, al contrario lo incrementa
y junto con las animaciones y la vida del personaje nos lleva a una impactante
experiencia, que en mi caso me dejo pensando por un largo tiempo sobre la
naturaleza de un individuo y como es que nuestros temores, la presión, la falta
de apoyo, y asuntos sociales llegan a encerrarnos en nuestra propia mente y
limitándonos con ciertas decisiones, alejándonos a veces de las personas y
llevándonos de la mano hasta un punto de explosión emocional, porque no me
dejarán mentir absolutamente todos hemos llegado a tener un cierto grado de
crisis.
Ahora me gustaría
hablar sobre Gerald Scarfe, el ilustrador y caricaturista que plasmo tan
ingeniosamente conceptos tan confusos en forma de metáforas.
Quien diría que personajes como un Maestro, la esposa, la Madre, rosa, y el
gusano, llegarían a tener tan impacto en una mente y ser uno de esos ladrillos,
que se sobrestimaron tanto hasta crear ese intimidante muro tan mencionado.
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=ukVNEwRLOUc&feature=related
Una paloma blanca huye volando y con una sangrienta explosión se transforma
en una gran ave negra que asecha y arranca un pedazo de tierra. Haciendo
entrada un monstruo de guerra sobre aquellos que atemorizados esperan
ocultos.
Todo está devastado y los seres esqueléticos forman un cementerio
despidiéndose del cielo azul. Mientras la sangre se va por la rejilla.
Gerald Scarfe no solo contribuyó con Pink Floyd en cuanto a los 15 minutos de
animación del largometraje the Wall en 1982, sino que también realizó la
portada del álbum en 1979, animaciones que se presentaron en la gira y un
libro recopilando las ilustraciones que realizó a lo largo de la trayectoria que
compartió con ellos.
http://www.geraldscarfe.com/shop/pink-floyd/
En Conclusión:
It seems like the group Pink Floyd was destined to create the double-album The Wall. In
fact, when you take a look at the history of the group, it almost seems like their entire career
was leading up to the creation of this now-classic album. From the moment their original
lead singer, Syd Barrett, disappeared into a psychedelic stupor, the band was leading to the
point where it would create one of the most popular and influential albums of the latter half
of the twentieth century.
The band, by the end of the '70s, was in a kind of creative stupor. They had started out as a
band that played strange, small clubs in and around London to captive audiences who sat,
silent, dazzled, as they filled those small rooms with swirling psychedelic noise and dazzling
colored bubbles and lights. All of that changed when the band created Dark Side of the
Moon.
There are many fans of rock and roll and the band, in particular, that would suggest
that Dark Sidewas their greatest album. Certainly, it was the album where the lyrical talents
of reluctant front-man Roger Waters and the musical abilities of guitarist David Gilmour
were working in perfect tandem. Waters had always wanted to just play bass, leaving the
songwriting to Barrett. However, when Barrett left reality, the song writing was turned over
to him. At first his lyrics were nebulous and unspecific. However, that began to change and
it became very specific with Dark Side.
Gilmour, meanwhile, had been a good friend of Barrett. When Barrett began his slide into
madness, Gilmour was often the one called in to substitute. It was only natural, then, when
the band decided to move on from Syd, that Gilmour would take his place. Barrett did not
take well to this, at first, but eventually the band, and Barrett, adapted.
Dark Side of the Moon became a phenomenon. Although the band had started to reach
across the ocean with some moderate success in the States, it was with this album that they
truly became a supergroup. They were no longer going to be playing small nightclubs and
strange places where the audience sat quietly, cross-legged, on the floor. The album sold
well and then stayed on the Billboard Top 200 for a record amount of time. It continues to
sell.
The album had a profound effect on the band. They were suddenly multi-millionaires. They
could do anything and everything they had ever dreamed about doing. What it cost the,
however, was the ability to create as they pleased, which had been the way they preferred to
work. They were now a commodity. They were now a product as well as a band. Thousands
upon thousands of dollars were riding on their future efforts and the pressure to create
another Dark Side was tremendous. Their touring schedule became grueling and they had
to travel around the globe over and over and over again. They were suddenly celebrities and
couldn't walk about like they had before.
What this lead to was a kind of creative exhaustion. They toured for two years with Dark
Side. When the group returned to the studio, more after pressure from their label than any
real desire to return to work, they were completely exhausted. They had no more ideas. As
such, Gilmour and the rest of the band were relieved when Waters decided to step in and
take further control of the project and the group itself. Although the result has become
another classic and, to many, their favorite Pink Floyd album, the band was entirely unsure
of what they had produced. That first album was Wish You Were Here and it dealt entirely
with the idea of being exhausted and being "there, but not there."
The album was another success. This lead to more touring. Waters was now starting to
crack. He was starting to understand the pressure that had been on Barrett all of those
years before and he felt he was losing touch with his audience by playing the ever-larger
arenas. The shows were getting bigger, playing to larger audiences, but at what cost?
The band, once again, returned to the studio after a two year break for touring. Waters was
now in even-greater control of the band. Gilmour attempted to exercise more control over
the music this time around, but Waters' lyrics were getting ever-more specific. The next
album was Animals. While it may not be considered as much of a classic as Dark Side of the
Moon or Wish You Were Here it did become another hit. Now, even larger venues were in
order. The result was the "In the Flesh" tour.
Waters was losing contact with the rest of the band at this point. He would often fly to
venues in a private helicopter while the others took limos. He was not speaking to the band
as much. He confessed, in later years, he wondered if he was mentally ill. He began to
envision the many thousands of fans as mindless sheep while he was like a despotic
dictator, capable of twisting their thoughts and even actions.
This culminated in an incident that shocked Waters. While playing a huge arena in
Montreal, he began to gesture toward one male fan near the front of the stage. Exactly what
this person was doing is unclear, but Waters began to perceive he was trying to antagonize
him. He motioned the young man down to the very front of the stage and then spat in the
man's face. Waters was stunned at his behavior.
From this incident he began to perceive of a show where, during the course of the show, a
wall would be built between the band and the audience. He originally conceived of a black
wall, built over the course of the concert. And that, at some key point, eventually the band
would be entirely hidden from the audience. Thus was the initial germ of an idea that would
become The Wall.
Once again, when the touring ended, the band retired to their respective homes. The band
was not even entirely sure if there would be another album. Once again, they were
exhausted. Rick Wright, the keyboardist, has barely participated in the past two albums. It
was also known by the band, and acknowledged by Wright later on, that he was addicted to
cocaine. Gilmour worked on a solo album. Nick Mason, the drummer, returned to collecting
the classic cars he enjoyed driving.
Waters began working on this next project. He had two ideas in mind. One was a narrative
about a dream he had and would become his first solo project The Pros and Cons of
Hitchhiking. The second was The Wall. He wrote out the narrative concepts and composed
songs which he sang into a tape recorder in his home. When the band again gathered to
discuss their next move, he brought the two tapes with them.
Both Mason and Wright were creatively spent. It was decided that Wright would officially
be removed from the band and take a session player wage going forward. Mason was saved
by the fact he had helped, in the past, with sound effects and other areas in making the
records. Gilmour was the only other creative force in the band at that time and he took the
two tapes with him and said he would give them a listen and his opinion of what album
should be next.
Gilmour stated that he found Pros and Cons to be much too personal to Waters and un-
relatable to the band and others. He also claimed that The Wall was very depressing and, in
parts, boring, but he thought there was enough of a concept there that he could work with
it. So, The Wall won.
From the beginning Waters had big ideas for The Wall. He conceived of the project as an
album, a stage show and a film. However, the first stage was to complete the album and the
story was far from complete when the band began working in their recording studio.
The Wall is a concept album. Concept albums had been the order of the day for the band
since Dark Side of the Moon. Some concept albums attempt to tell an actual story, while
others simply have a unifying theme that binds the songs together. The Wall would attempt
to tell a story, but also have a unifying theme.
The story of The Wall is a combination of Waters and Barrett. It tells the story of Pink, a
rock and roll star who is on another grueling tour in the United States. Throughout his life,
various events have caused him serious emotional damage. To deal with them he has been
mentally building a "wall" that is shutting him down emotionally from the rest of the world.
Each event is another "brick."
The first brick is the death of his father at Anzio, in Italy, during World War II. This was
autobiographical of Waters life. He had often lamented the death of his father when he was
still an infant and growing up without him. He was particularly upset because he was told
by his mother that his father was very musical.
The next brick in the wall is his over-protective mother. Waters was quick to point out that
this was not autobiographical. He felt that his mother was very encouraging. Waters'
mother was an activist and instilled socialist beliefs in Roger from the time he was a child.
However, he stated he knew people who were smothered by their own parents. It was also
pointed out that when Syd Barrett officially vanished from public life, he went home to live
with his mother.
The smothering from his mother causes Pink to be unable to relate to women. This is
explained in the song "Mother." So, that when he finally does meet and fall in love with a
woman he is, at times, abusive both physically and mentally, and completely unable to
relate to her. While he tours the United States, he makes a call home to speak to his wife
and another man answers. The final brick in his wall is that his wife is cheating on him.
At this point Pink disappears entirely behind his wall. He now sits, catatonic, in a chair,
with a television on showing him war movies, in his hotel room. He begins to remember
things from his past and wonder about his life and why things have happened as they have
happened. He looks at himself as sad and pathetic. When, finally, his manager comes to the
hotel to take him to his concert, he finds Pink unresponsive. This leads into the classic
"Comfortably Numb" which describes a doctor giving Pink an injection to revive him long
enough to do the show.
There is just one more moment of clarity, on the album, at this point. During "The Show
Must Go On" Pink wonders if maybe he can just "leave the show." However, he soon
discovers that he cannot and that the show must go on, whether he is ready, or sane, or not.
On the album, at this point, Pink has become completely insane. He views himself as a
Nazi-like dictator and his fans as his blind followers. As he goes on stage, he is teetering on
the brink, the drugs pumping through his system. He yells into the microphone that the real
Pink is "back in the hotel" and that he is a surrogate, sent in his place. The band then
launches into "Run Like Hell" which is meant to be a song from Pink's set. The lyrics send
him tumbling headlong into his hallucination.
What follows next is profoundly disturbing. Pink rails against minorities and those he
considers inferior. He imagines his fans as his soldiers, marching through the streets and
weeding out the "weaklings" and the unfit. Pink is, essentially, having his breakdown on
stage in front of his fans.
The listener is now behind the wall with Pink. We are inside his mind as he puts himself on
a humiliating trial where he laments the pain he has caused. He sentences himself to have
his wall torn down and be "exposed before his peers." This was the climax of the album,
concert and film. The wall comes down and Pink is left barren, exposed. Listeners with
sharp ears will hear that the album ends with the words "Isn't this where..." and that the
start of the album the words are "...we came in?" Thus, the entire process is a cycle and Pink
is doomed to start rebuilding his wall all over again.
The album is a deep, searing look into the mind of a man going insane. It is personal to
Waters, but incorporates elements of Barrett's breakdown and even the mental problems of
other members of the band, such as Rick Wright. Despite the disturbing themes and
images, the album has become a classic and a hit. It was helped by having "Another Brick in
the Wall Part Two" become a huge radio hit.
It was a struggle for the band to get this album together. Arguments broke out and producer
Bob Ezrin was brought in to act as mediator. He helped the album achieve the coherence
and order that it currently has. He put some songs back in that the band had grown tired of.
He also sent Waters away to do rewrites and take some things out that he felt were too close
to Waters and not universal enough.
Once the album was finished, the Wall was performed on stage. However, it was only
performed a few times. It was such a massive undertaking that a full-fledged tour was
impossible. Plus, tensions within the band made such a tour impossible as well. The show
only played three nights in Los Angeles and three nights at a venue near London.
During the course of the show, the audience was shown a multi-media bonanza. Gerald
Scarfe was hired to draw animations that were projected on a screen behind the band or on
the wall itself when it was complete. Giant inflatable characters of the teacher, the mother
and Pink's wife were created. A wall 40-feet high would be built each night out of white
cardboard bricks and then torn down at the end.
At the same time, the concept for the film was taking shape. Originally the film was to star
Waters as the main character. The concerts were to be filmed with segments that would
further the story filmed as well. However, things began to change when filmmaker Alan
Parker was hired to direct.
It seems as if the meeting of Waters and Parker was like the proverbial rock meeting the
proverbial hard place. Both of them are strong-willed, determined people who each wanted
their own way. Conflicts started almost immediately. Parker wanted to tell a slightly
different story that would go beyond Waters' psyche and Waters wanted to keep the film
more in line with the story on the album.
Immediately gone was Waters as the main character. Singer Bob Geldof was hired to take
on the role. It was a move Waters never really warmed to. Geldof only sings a few times
during the movie. The concert scenes that had been filmed with the original band were also
gone and new concert scenes were filmed. Waters began to feel betrayed.
The film, in many ways, has to be seen separately from the album. It is an all-out attack on
the senses. The music is loud, the images disturbing and the performance by Geldof
mesmerizing. It is, essentially, an hour-and-a-half long music video that plays most of the
songs heard on the album. Parker, however, excised certain songs along the way, adding to
Waters fury.
The animation from Gerald Scarfe features prominently throughout the movie. For fans of
animation, this is a movie that falls into the must-see category. The images are very, very
disturbing, showing the madness growing in Pink's mind better than any real-life images
could. Some of his images, such as the crossed red and black hammers, have become iconic.
The film changes the story only slightly. Pink's descent into being a dictator seems to take
place entirely in his mind before he arrives at the venue where he is to perform. His trial
seems to take place, again in his mind, while he reviews a book of lyrics in a bathroom stall.
The exact fate of Pink is not entirely clear. After the wall explodes, accompanied by a
frenzied scream of terror and pain, we are treated to an image of a bombed-out building
and children scrounging the wreckage. What is it meant to imply? It is not entirely clear.
The movie, however, is powerful and deeply moving. While Waters has never truly warmed
up to it, there is not denying the power of the film. Waters, in fact, when he would tour in
later years he would sometimes carry film cans on stage while wearing a jacket with a knife
protruding from his back that would ooze blood.
With the album, the stage version and the movie, the band had been working on The
Wall for years by the time the movie was shown. All of that time spent deeply in the mind of
Roger Waters was too much. When Waters proposed that their next album he leftover songs
that they could not find a spot for in The Wall and that it should be called Spare Bricks that
was the final straw. The songs would eventually become the album The Final Cut an album
many fans consider the worst of the album canon. It was a financial failure in terms of Pink
Floyd but the band never toured with it. Waters declared he would never work with anyone
from the band again and the line up of Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason was done.
Over the years, the band has managed to be reborn. Two more albums were made and more
tours were had featuring Gilmour, Wright and Mason. Waters, meanwhile, launched a
moderately successful solo career and even played The Wall on a gigantic scale in Berlin
when the wall was finally torn down and Germany reunited. The original line up even had a
momentous reunion on stage during the "Live 8" performances in the early 2000s.
Rick Wright died, thus ending most likelihood of any reunion tour. However, in 2010,
Roger Waters has announced a tour of The Wall. It's the first official tour of the album since
it was released back in the late '70s. The movie is also celebrating the anniversary of its
release and was even shown as during Roger Ebert's film festival "Ebertfest" in Champaign,
Illinois.
The Wall has now become a classic. It has become a milestone in rock and roll as well as
among fans of the band. At the time, it was a curious and strange album that many involved
with the project wondered who would want to listen to it. Over time it has proven to be an
enduring classic and a staple for "classic rock" radio stations around the world. Now, with
the new tour, a new generation will find itself exposed to this album. Thus, like the album
itself, it is a never-ending cycle.