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From: slg@ukma.UUCP (Sean Gilley)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.movies
Subject: Re:  The Wall
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 09:09:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 09:09:26 1986
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In reference to the article that said that the `wall' was refering to
the imaginary fourth wall between the performers and the audience --

Sure, that may be what he meant as a writer,  but that doesn't mean
that that's all there is to the movie.  It's been a while since I've seen
the movie,  but it is ridiculas to say that that meaning is  all there is
to it.

I don't remember who directed the movie, but certainly the `Another Brick
In the Wall' scene with the children first becoming all nearly the same,
then falling into a meat grinder can have several different interpretations,
the easiest being just a new versions of the `Little Boxes' theme.

Since it has been so long since I saw the movie, I don't feel competant to
really comment on it, but the `fourth wall' idea did not come over at all
in the film.  Perhaps seen on stage it might be different, but I don't
even know if it was done on stage... I didn't see it.

						Sean.



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