A flashback shows young Pink searching through trenches of the war, eventually finding himself as an adult. He shaves all his body hair, and watches television. Now inside his wall, he does not leave his hotel room, and begins to lose his mind to metaphorical 'worms'. His wall shown to be complete, and the film returns to the first scene. He then remembers every 'brick' of his wall. Depressed, he thinks about his wife, and feels trapped in his room. Pink then comes back to the hotel room with a groupie, only for her to annoy Pink to the point where he destroys the room in a fit of violence, scaring her away. 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. As an adult now, Pink remembers his overprotective 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. 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. 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.

An animation depicts the war, showing that the death of the people was for nothing.

A young Pink later discovers relics from his father's military service and death. The aftermath of the battle is seen, and thus, Pink's mother raises him alone, which affects Pink's childhood. 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. Pink is a depressed rock star, whom at the beginning of the film, he appears motionless and expressionless while remembering his father.

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