Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) (The following is the synopsis written
by
the director of the film) “The story
of THE
WALL is told simply with the music of Pink Floyd, images and
natural
effects. There is no conventional dialogue to process the
narrative.
The story is about Pink, a Rock and Roll performer, who sits
locked in
a hotel room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much
dope,
too much applause: a burned out case. On the TV, an all too
familiar
war film flickers on the screen. We shuffle time and place,
reality and
nightmare as we venture into Pink’s painful memories, each one a
“brick” in the wall he has gradually built around his feelings.
Slowly
he withdraws from the real world and slips further into his
nightmares
as he imagines himself as unfeeling demagogue, for whom all that
is
left is the demonstration of power over his unthinking audience,
the
culmination of the odious excess of his own world and the world
around
him. His internal self trial follows, as the witnesses of his
past
life, the very people who have contributed to the building of
the wall,
come forward to testify against him.”
You have studied the 5 main Personality
Theories and
will describe Pink’s Personality based on these theories. Your
grade
will be based on how well you analyze the main characters
personality,
supported by the specific characteristics of each theory.
You must cite
specific scenes/lyrics from the movie
and support your
analyses/descriptions/explanations appropriately using
the terms that
the
researchers have developed. (Don’t forget to include
researchers’ names)
The theories are as follows:
*Behavioristic
*Cognitive
*Humanistic
*Psychoanalytic *Trait
Note that there are 5 theories, so I’m not requiring a completely
detailed analysis for each theory (I don’t want to read 15 pages
as
much as you don’t want to write 15 pages!) but each analysis
should
incorporate the main idea of each theory.
(**A copy of the lyrics
will GREATLY help in the analysis assignment. Though the
lyrics can be found on any site, I've included the
following site because it provides insight about the development
of the
movie/album and some synposes of songs/scenes. I DO NOT
recommend you
copy the author's words/ideas, but the site does provide some
background about the psychological history of the songs, the
artists,
and post-WWII
England.) http://www.thewallanalysis.com/Intro.html
Personality
Theory via... 
