THE ASTOR REVIEW

Bob Geldof plays a burnt-out rock star suffering from mental breakdown in this confronting and spectacular production. Striking animated sequences by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe set to music by Pink Floyd. Plus a Cartoon. Anita Paul

IMDB SYNOPSIS

The movie tells the story of rock singer Pink who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album The Wall by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.