Suddenly, the school resembles a meat factory, and students are lined up, forced to go through a brick wall machine meant to transform them into something other than what they are. They march in unison like good little soldiers, forced to go up the steps through the brick machine.
Monday, August 23, 2021
Commentary: Leave Our Kids Alone
In Alan Parker’s 1982 film, “Pink Floyd—The Wall,” a young boy’s reality turns into a nightmare. It’s post-war England, and the boy—now in his teens and fatherless—sits in a classroom tuning out his bland math lesson and composing poems instead. The teacher—a pedagogical sadist—mocks the boy, and then proceeds to mete out some good, old-fashioned corporal punishment. The boy winces, and overwhelmed with anxiety begins to see his world as an unbearable nightmare of human oppression.
