Fridge / The Wall

• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Why is there a long pause in "In the Flesh" between the rock section and the start of the singing? In the plot, this song is played at the start of the Neo-Nazi rally Pink hallucinates himself to be performing at. Adolf Hitler was known for taking up to a minute before beginning his speeches at rallies, just to keep his audiences in suspense.
  • When Pink sings, "If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!" in "In the Flesh", he's not talking about just the minorities. He means all of his fans.
  • These fascists which are represented by marching hammers? They're just mindless, destructive tools in someone else's hands.
  • And what are hammers best used for, aside from pounding in nails and pounding things into shape? Tearing down walls, as shown in the "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" sequence. The symbolism couldn't be more fitting.
  • In the film, the Judge during the Trial section is both represented by a giant worm and as a talking pair of buttocks. It could be that "the law is an ass", but there's an even better interpretation: The "worms" are symbolic of the worst in human beings, what pushes them into hatred and fascism and violence. Therefore, the double form of the judge could say that the worms are what releases each person's inner asshole.
    • The Wife in the Trial is depicted with a hot fire in place of hair. Like everything else, it has a double-symbol behind it. Burning with anger is a fairly obvious one, but there is also a less open symbol, of her being Pink's old flame-a former lover.
    • Another thing to mention about the Judge; he primarily takes the form of a giant pair of buttocks, and has nothing nice to say about Pink. In other words, he’s talking shit.
  • A cut to The Teacher's home life shows him being forced to eat a bit of food he didn't like by his overbearing wife. That's why he yells at his students "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!" It's because he's forced to eat things he doesn't want by his wife in order to enjoy the food he does like.
• Fridge Horror: Those are real neo-Nazi skinheads in the movie smashing up an Indian-owned café and attacking an interracial couple.