The Trial - Pink Floyd - The Wall - 4K Remastered

“The Trial“ (working title “Trial by Puppet“) is a track from Pink Floyd’s 1979 rock opera/concept album The Wall. Written by Roger Waters and Bob Ezrin, it marks the climax of the album and film. The song centres on the main character, Pink, who having lived a life filled with emotional trauma and substance abuse has reached a critical psychological break. “The Trial“ is the fulcrum on which Pink’s mental state balances. In the song, Pink is charged with “showing feelings of an almost human nature.“ This means that Pink has committed a crime against himself by actually attempting to interact with his fellow human beings, defying the mission towards self-isolation that defined much of his life. Through the course of the song, he is confronted by the primary influences of his life (who have been introduced over the course of the album): an abusive schoolmaster, his wife, and his overprotective mother; in the animated sequence, they are depicted as grotesque caricatures. Pink’s subconscious struggle for sanity is overseen by a new character, “The Judge.“ In Pink Floyd - The Wall and the concert animations, the Judge is a giant worm for most of the song until his verse, at which point he transforms into a giant anthropomorphic body from the waist-down (bigger than the marching hammers in “Waiting for the Worms“), his face constructed from various elements of the buttocks and genitals. A prosecutor conducts the early portions, which consist of the antagonists explaining their actions, intercut with Pink’s refrains, “Crazy/Toys in the attic, I am crazy,/Truly gone fishing“ and “Crazy/Over the rainbow, I am crazy,/Bars in the window.“ The culmination of the trial is the judge’s sentence for Pink “to be exposed before your peers“ whereupon he orders Pink to “Tear down the wall!“ As Waters sings the dialogue for each character he transitions into different accents including: Cockney accent (the prosecutor and judge, Scottish accent (the schoolmaster) and Northern English accent (Pink’s mother). For the character of Pink’s wife he used his normal voice on the album and the original 1980-81 tour. This and the following song, “Outside the Wall,“ are the only two songs on the album which the story is (partly) seen from an outsider’s perspective, most notably through the three antagonists of “The Trial,“ even though it is all in Pink’s mind. The segment in the film version is a full-length animated sequence of vivid colour and disturbing visuals. Political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe directed the design for the segment. The film segment relies not only on visuals, but also on the themes, music, and lyrics of the original song. Pink, himself, is portrayed as an almost inanimate rag doll throughout the sequence. Pink’s schoolmaster, wife and mother and the prosecutor and judge are depicted as large and grotesque caricatures and are known individually by their role: The prosecutor is a caricature of a Victorian barrister. He is short and rotund, wearing a long navy gown which trails behind him, at points above his own head, such as when he leaps onto the wall (depicted as being composed of white bricks, as in the album’s cover). His facial features are occasionally greatly exaggerated; depending on what he is saying. For instance, when he describes Pink’s charges, during saying that Pink has experienced “feelings of an almost human nature,“ his face moves close to the camera and assumes a grotesque expression of disgust and contempt. The schoolmaster is brought down like a marionette on strings, controlled by his overbearing wife, referring to the earlier song “The Happiest Days of Our Lives“. He has a long face with grey skin and two pointy tufts of hair on top, making his head somewhat resemble a hammer. The wife comes out from underneath the wall, represented as the scorpion/praying mantis that previously appeared during “Don’t Leave Me Now“. The mother comes in as an abstract, morphing image of an airplane (referencing the plane which killed Pink’s father, and also the plane which Pink was playing with in “Another Brick in the Wall part I“), and then transforms into a talking vagina, which then encircles Pink before morphing into a caricature of the archetypal mid-20th century British mother. As her verse ends, she transforms into the wall that Pink continues to be trapped behind. The judge is portrayed as a giant pair of buttocks — complete with two backwards facing legs, an anus for a mouth (with a monstrous voice), and a scrotum for a chin — wearing a judge’s wig. The judge reaches the final verdict to tear down the wall and vomits out a montage of clips from the movie shown before were played, following this is a long moment of silence before the wall begins to burst apart, accompanied by a scream of agony and terror from Pink. Input: 1920x1080 Output: 3840x2160 The Wall full playlist: #TheTrial #PinkFloyd #TheWall