literally, like the great wall of china, walls are something difficult to get over.. i can't help thinking about the woman i met while walking on it.. she said: ‘mongols there, chinese there' and pointed to our left and then right.. and at that very moment i visualised.. me, a mongolian sent by genghis khan to climb up the mountain slope to consequently go wall climbing and chinese warriors who try to prevent me from succeeding in doing so.. in this case ‘wall' is a barrier stopping entry..

in the case of the berlin wall, it was to separate the soviet part of the city from the western enclave and keep east germans behind the iron curtain..

metaphorically, walls are an obstacle to progress, something that doesn't allow one to develop, to live freely, to express oneself the way one wants to.. all this symbolises the inability to communicate, which is a phenomenon countries, nations, social classes, teachers and students, parents and children, girlfriends and boyfriends, friends, workmates, strangers, people suffer from..

these walls seem to be impossible to pull down.. they tend to become higher and higher, thicker and thicker, whereas buildings we live in demand constant care and attention.. otherwise they start crumbling..

pink floyd released their concept album ‘the wall' in 1979.. wikipedia reads here:

"The Wall is a rock opera whose overriding themes are based on the causes and implications of self-imposed isolation, symbolised by the metaphorical wall of the title. The songs create an approximate storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Pink. Pink's father dies during his childhood (Waters' father was killed during World War II). Oppressed by his overprotective mother, and tormented at school by tyrannical, abusive teachers, each of these traumas becomes "another brick in the wall". The protagonist becomes a rock star, with relationships marred by infidelity, drug use, and outbursts of violence. As his marriage crumbles, he finishes building his wall, completing his isolation from human contact.

Hidden behind his wall, Pink's crisis escalates, culminating in an hallucinatory on-stage performance where he believes that he is a fascist dictator performing at concerts similar to Neo-Nazi rallies, at which he sets his men on fans he considers unworthy. Tormented with guilt, he places himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to "tear down the wall", opening Pink to the outside world. The album turns full circle with its closing words "Isn't this where..." (the first song on the album begins with the words "...we came in?"), with a continuation of the melody of the last song hinting at the cyclical nature of Waters' theme."

visually stunning, musically captivating, conceptually huge, ambitious but accessible..

listen to the album a couple of times and get through the lyrics before you come to watch the film on tuesday.. you'll appreciate it to a greater extent..

all in all we're just another brick in the wall, aren't we? do you say it with rising or falling intonation???:)

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