Comparison of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" Video and Song

In Pink Floyd’s song The Wall the video and song both share the similar idea of stifled creativity and the society trying to diminish individuality. In the song it repeats the idea of bricks. Maybe the song writer wanted to convey that the bricks are a metaphor for people in the society. By saying that they’re just bricks in the wall one can only assume that they mean the wall is the world , or society, and the bricks are people who are being molded how everyone else wants them to be. That being said, this idea of conforming to society and being just like everyone else is shown in the video through various things like masks, the many bricks, the train, and also the conveyor belt. The masks worn by the children shows that they are not their own individual people they’re all the same. The masks were expressionless and had no concept of what the individual underneath it looked like. This shows what the song wanted to convey because the children were all the same, wearing the same clothes and also masks that were all the same so basically they were just the same people who had the same thoughts. The train and the way the people were reaching out of it as they arrived could be the film maker’s way of showing that these people did not really want to conform to society and they all just wanted to be themselves to suggest that the rest of the video will have them being molded and forced into what society wants them to be like. I really think that the conveyor belt just adds to the meaning of the song. It creates a more visual and straightforward way to comprehend the song. By having the conveyor belt it shows how the song really does mean that society is shaping people to be the same. No one has any individual thoughts or feelings, and by showing a conveyor belt with the children on it, it’s as if they are mass produced like many of the modern day things that are all alike with no contrast to set them apart from the others. I think that maybe the songwriter wanted to say that the school systems are molding kids into what they think they should be like, not allowing them to show their creativity or individual thoughts. Then again if you don’t take it in such a literal sense the teacher could be society and the kids they’re talking about could be people in general. Either way both the video and the song convey that there is a strong influence that wants people to all be alike and have the same thought processes and no individuality.