History Headscratchers / TheWall

** As to the question of the overturned truck (to be specific, it's actually a milk float), it's implied that the very last scene is taking place either after a bombing raid during the Blitz or else in the (potentially imagined) aftermath of Pink's (potentially imagined) fascist riot. The overturned milk float isn't the point; the point is that [[{{Symbolism}} the community, led by the children, are all coming together to clear away the destruction that the overturned float is just one aspect of]]. Everything in the final scene is just serving to [[{{Pun}} hammer]] home the overarching points of the album/movie about isolating yourself in response to trauma not being the best idea in the world as well as the need to identify and break cycles of violence and abuse (since the final image of the film is a boy who resembles the youngest Pink disassembling a Molotov cocktail).

** To add to the above, the wall in the film ''isn't'' a literal wall, any more than, say, the shadow of Pink's wife turning into all those...[[NightmareFuel things]] is meant to be taken literally. The wall in the film essentially serves the same function as the wall that gets built onstage during the live concerts: it's simply a visual representation of the central metaphor.

** It's called "The Wall." You really can't ''not'' have a wall in it! Kidding aside, though, it's an artifact of the original premise, which married concert footage with motion-picture segments.

* Why is there an overturned truck in the end of the movie? Come to think about it, why is there even a literal wall in the movie?

** Some level of poetic license must be granted here. This is still a song, after all, and there is a point where critiquing the "accuracy" of the lyrics risks becoming tediously pedantic and over-literal. Waters is going for the best term that expresses the idea that he's going for with this part of the lyric (childlike innocence/naivete and trust in political figures) while still fitting in with the rhyming scheme that he's working with (the following line is "Mother, should I trust the government?", with which "prime minister" wouldn't work at all). You just have to go with it on this one.

** Some level of poetic license must be granted here. This is still a song, after all, and there is a point where critiquing the "accuracy" of the lyrics risks becoming tediously pedantic and over-literal. Waters is going for the best term that expresses the idea that he's going for with this part of the lyric (childlike innocence/naivete and trust in political figures) while still fitting in with the rhyming scheme that he's working with (the following line is "Mother should I run for government?", with which "prime minister" wouldn't work at all). You just have to go with it on this one.

** I just kind of assumed that all of the questions that Pink asks his mom at the beginning of "Mother" were coming from a younger Pink, who probably didn't understand that he couldn't become president eventually. The POTUS tends to be looked at as someone with a lot of power (not without good reason) while most people can't even name the current English PM (unless they're from the UK).

** The telephone sound effects are Pink trying to get through to his wife and failing. The airport sound effects might be Pink going from London (on the bad-ass Concorde, no doubt) to Los Angeles for a gig.

* This is more of a nitpick on the movie. After Pink teared down the wall where did he go? Last we hear of him is during the wall's collapse he screams.

* "Mother should I run for president?" What president is he talking about? I would assume the president of the United States but since he's British he couldn't run for president even if he immigrated and got US citizenship because it's a law that any person running for president has to be born in the US. And the United Kingdom doesn't have a president, they have a Prime Minister.

** ''The Final Cut'' implies, at the very least, that he didn't kill himself.

** It's left up to you, the audience, to decide.

* This is more of a nitpick on the movie. After Pink teared down the wall where did he go? Last we hear of him is during the wall's collapse he screams.

** The telephone sound effects are Pink trying to get through to his wife and failing. The airport sound effects might be Pink going from London (on the bad-ass Concorde, no doubt) to Los Angeles for a gig.

* This is a very minor nitpick, but why ''is'' there helicopter noises at the start of Happiest Days of Our Lives? Other than RuleOfCool?

** The teacher was in the war. It gets more into this in a couple songs on {{The Final Cut}}

* Other strange transitions: telephone sounds at the end of "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2," and airport sounds between "Goodbye Blue Sky" and "Empty Spaces." What do they mean?

* Other strange transitions: telephone sounds between "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" and "Mother"; and airport sounds between "Goodbye Blue Sky" and "Empty Spaces." What do they mean?

** The teacher was in the war. It gets more into this in a couple songs on {{The Final Cut}}

** I think they put the sound as a segue from Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1) to Happiest Days of Our Lives, because it was supposed to represent Pink's father dying at war, but that's just my opinion. I'm sure The Other Wiki has some info on this.

** You got me. But in TheMovie they are replaced with the train sounds, which make sense in context, at least.