The Wall (Alan Parker)
Bleak is it? Well strap in for
this beauty then ....
Roger Waters & Gerald Scarfe exorcise some demons. Disguised as popular entertainment ... This Freudian mish mash of rank misogyny and bombast is easily the Suspiria of rock films. Tis relentless. Relentlessly self pitying that is. Hands up, I always hated the record. And the comm?? Tis the reason I will be keeping this. Fascinating look into the English post war psyche ... Ahem.
The semi portentous tone of the making of is hysterically apt