(26) THE WALL: Pink Floyd - Outside The Wall
Give a 9-year-old child The Wall and something in him will inevitably change: but is it a record or a film?
After the last, operatic, pathetic scene of the trial, with the judging worms, set against the sound of the rubble from the fallen wall, a faint sense of serenity emerges along with the moral of freedom regained thanks to those who will pound their hearts against the wall of a raging madman. Wright's rustic accordion opens and closes The Wall: a work that sits there, in the niche of the already revered, but could become frighteningly relevant again.