Pink Floyd - The Wall

After watching in class the movie "Pink Floyd - The Wall", the teacher gave us a set of questions I will be answering below:

1. This portrays how society was educated based on equality as what is socially accepted regardless of their identity, where everyone is enclosed to follow a standard stereotype. Masks in both situations represent people as faceless individuals which are part of a machine and are all somehow the same. They were shaped under certain ideals and cannot be set free so as to think by themselves
   
2. The riot scene was all in the boy's mind; he was imagining what it would be like to step aside from that stereotype that everyone was pressured to form part of. The scene begins with the teacher mocking the kid's imagination and creativity, in other words we can say that being different was not accepted. Therefore the kid afterwards begins to imagine what would it be like to break the order and stand out of the stereotype. However, the scene comes back to the class at the end, to show that they are still being under a strict control, and expressing their feeling is not acceptable. 
3. The movie portrays a tough and strict kind of education. We can see how the teacher follow a certain educational structure which should be respected by the children and if they didn't they were punished. Moreover every actitude a student had that showed him different to the rest was considered as a weakness and used to embarrass him.
4. The movie deals with various social institutions which are the government, education and the family. As regards the government we can mention it to be what controls everything by the education. They are who decide what what we should learn in order to grew up following their beliefs. The government’s purpose is to making us follow a same stereotype for they to keep the control of everything, and control means power. Therefore we can say that what the government looks after is power, which is just accessible if they force us to think like them. On the other hand, the family is the other institution portrayed in the movie, we can see how Pink losses his father after the wall and all he has left was his mother, yet she seems not to be present in his life. We can say that family is important for us, it represents who we will become, since parents are who we looked after when we are kids. This can be shown in the scene were he wears with his father uniform imitating him. This is why we can say that the movie presents to us different social institutions which have the same purpose, since these are what will guide us during our childhood to grow up and will determine our future.
   
5. The phrase “We, in Argentina, often rely on education to solve most of our social problems. We blame education, or the lack of it, for many of them” is something that you always listen here, and we constantly repeat too. However, we think that what the film what is trying show us, is that aggressive and repressive style of teaching children, where students are blame of thinking different. 
6. In the movie education is shown as the base for control. It portrays how the society is build from the education teaching the younger generation the way they have to act and think. So if they teach in the institutions a way of behaving and show them what they consider to be good or bad, then in the future everyone would follow the same beliefs and hence they have the control of everyone.
7. In the fresh scene we can appreciate a group of double-hammer marching perfectly in order. This whole metaphoric scene what is trying to teach us is how education control us to be a “perfect” person without any error, and with a same style of life and that the meaning of being different means to be a wrong person. 
   
8. The children falling into the meat grinder is a visual metaphor that represents how education kills every different thought from what the government and schools wants, leaving only a human body, a robot that only express and repeat one idea. What education do to children is burning their brains and every thing that is different. 
9. In the Cambridge dictionary the wall is defined as a structure made of brick or stone that divides different areas. In the Pink Floyd film the wall represents is how society is divided between the good persons and the bad ones, where education is a key point from these division. Another way of seeing this powerful concept this that “we are just another brick in the wall”, where every human being represents a brick in that wall, representing only one thing, the same thing, the same idea, hiding our differences,and making it impossible to us to build our own wall and creating our wall, full of knowledge and diferents ideas.
   

Work done toghether with Tomas Busquets and Sebastian Varisto