Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall Analysis

In the music video Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd is attempting to bring into light the cookie cutter education system that, to many, seems to make the children into a design that sometimes is often not made for the children themselves. It seems to be a cry for reform in the way that children are raised so that those that do not fit into the design are not cast aside. Before the modern education system currently implemented student were often forced into a system lacking in flexibility. This was especially true in places such as Great Britain where the teaching style was especially rigid until recent reforms. Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall is an excellent example of a music video with an important message.
To begin with, Pink Floyd first introduces an example of, what a school might consider an undesirable student, by beginning with a train speeding past a young boy as he places bullets on the rail. Here Pink Floyd uses symbolism to show the boy being passed by a train full of masked children at an alarming speed, representing the students who have graduated and moved on to life. As the train passes you see a man screaming at him telling him to stop. As the man yells the child’s face switches between it being normal to a mask that covers all details in his face, a similar mask to the other students. …show more content…
Pink Floyd points out the way that teachers discipline students and how many students are often humiliated for things that they do when they deserve to be encouraged to do them, such as poetry. Pink Floyd symbolizes the mind-control like processes used to make students the way the schools have envisioned. Pink Floyd’s final message in his video is the inevitability of a student uprising and the possibility of it becoming violent despite the best efforts of the