Pink Floyd - The Wall (DVD, 1999, Special Edition)

The eBay review starts by saying, "Loosely based on the life story of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's original front man (who was kicked out of the band for his bizarre and disturbing behavior only to go insane shortly thereafter) . . ."

Most of Pink Floyd's double CD set is put to DVD including British war scenes from WWII, a child who lost his father to the war, tried to fit into his stalwart uniform, society in general, and was likely so sensitive a man that it drive him nuts to live in such a brutal world of violence.

Aminator Gerald Scarfe takes unfilmable scenes of an abused child's life and adult imaganation and makes them into highly effective art to Pink Floyd's best musical score.

After seeing many a rock music movie, The Wall is the real thing. The musical interpretation and animated horrification of an extremely talented man who had every reason from birth onwards not to be.

As an adult child who also lost their father as a toddler, the film had me in tears because it rang too true to my own real life experience during the same historical period. I hope that other fatherless adult children have the opportunity to see and hear The Wall. The heavy rock music and graphic animation are somehow healing.