After a phone call, Pink discovers that his wife is cheating on him, and another animation shows that every traumatic experience he has had is represented as a 'brick' in the metaphorical wall he constructs around himself that divides him from all society. ('Another Brick in The Wall, Part 2') As an adult now, Pink remembers his overprotective mother (' Mother'), and when he got married. Pink then fantasizes about the children rising in rebellion and burning down the school, throwing the teacher onto a bonfire. (' The Happiest Days of Our Lives') Pink imagines an oppressive school system in which children fall into a meat grinder. However, it is revealed that the bad treatment of the students is because of the unhappiness of the teacher's marriage. (' Goodbye Blue Sky') Pink places a bullet on the track of an oncoming train within a tunnel, and the train that passes has children peering out of the windows wearing face masks.Īt school, he is caught writing poems in class and is humiliated by the teacher who reads a poem from Pink's book (lyrics from the song ' Money').

('When the Tigers Broke Free, Part 2') An animation depicts the war, showing that the death of the people was for nothing. (' Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1') A young Pink later discovers a scroll from 'kind old King George' and other relics from his father's military service and death. (' In the Flesh?') The aftermath of the battle is seen (' The Thin Ice'), and thus, Pink's mother raises him alone, which affects Pink's childhood. (' When the Tigers Broke Free, Part 1') While Pink imagines a crowd of fans entering one of his concerts, but him receiving them in a fascist alter ego, a flashback reveals how his father was killed defending the Anzio beachhead during World War II, in Pink's infancy.

At the beginning of the film, he appears motionless and expressionless, while remembering his father. Pink is a rock star, one of the many reasons which have left him depressed.

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