Brick in the Wall
I've just run across the video for Pink Floyd's Brick in the Wall for the first time http://youtu.be/YR5ApYxkU-U
The film is incendiary (literally) and will be well known to most of you who probably saw it years ago. It is striking that the boy who is the central character (Waters?) is picked on to be humiliated by the brutal schoolteacher for writing poetry in class. I was a secret writer who was never discovered or outed until I chose the moment, but I well remember the atmosphere of anxiety and sarcastic brutality in a 60s boys school. Anything for which one might be ridiculed was to be avoided or kept secret at all costs.
Does this chime with anyone else's experience?
The film is incendiary (literally) and will be well known to most of you who probably saw it years ago. It is striking that the boy who is the central character (Waters?) is picked on to be humiliated by the brutal schoolteacher for writing poetry in class. I was a secret writer who was never discovered or outed until I chose the moment, but I well remember the atmosphere of anxiety and sarcastic brutality in a 60s boys school. Anything for which one might be ridiculed was to be avoided or kept secret at all costs.
Does this chime with anyone else's experience?
Sat, 13 Dec 2014 08:09 am
DAVE,
I was one of those unfortunate guys that the teacher always made get up and read before the class and suffer from my peers afterwards. The first poem I ever wrote I hid in a bicycle pump for fear of discovery.
I was one of those unfortunate guys that the teacher always made get up and read before the class and suffer from my peers afterwards. The first poem I ever wrote I hid in a bicycle pump for fear of discovery.
Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:28 pm
