Pink Floyd ~ The Wall

A rock star sits mute, except for the occasional scream, in his hotel suite somewhere in Los Angeles. The television is permanently on, and his eyes watch it almost sightlessly. He remembers his father, killed at Anzio, his suffocating mother, his childhood sweetheart whom he married and who then fell for someone else.

Finally broken by the melange of memories, and by a lifestyle that has successfully erected an impenetrable wall between him and any kind of tangible reality, he imagines himself a rock ’n roll Great Dictator, strutting in front of a ghoulish audience. A kind of affirmative ending suggests that perhaps he will break down the wall and start to live again.