The music video for "Hey You!" is edited out from Alan Parker's "Pink Floyd The Wall" (1982), film adaptation of the group's superb masterpiece album
released in 1979. Unlike "Another Brick in the Wall", which was the whole sequence revolving Pink at the school, this clip edits several sequences from
the movie (the most intense or more chaotic) to adapt to the song's idea in a metaphorical way and the grandiose cinematography from the picture was
changed to a symbolic black-and-white. It works as a long film trailer where you hear a track that is not present in Parker's film but you can watch the amazing images which he shot.
I love the movie, the song even more (one of Floyd's most inspired and poetic songs of all) and the video is easy to recommend because of those elements. For those who are getting to know the group from their songs it's an excellent presentation of such combination; for fans of the movie is a chance to see the film a little differently; but judging as a music video of its own it's a little random, abstract and without much feeling to it which is the opposite when the artist performs the music or are part of a projected clip. But it works. 9/10
I love the movie, the song even more (one of Floyd's most inspired and poetic songs of all) and the video is easy to recommend because of those elements. For those who are getting to know the group from their songs it's an excellent presentation of such combination; for fans of the movie is a chance to see the film a little differently; but judging as a music video of its own it's a little random, abstract and without much feeling to it which is the opposite when the artist performs the music or are part of a projected clip. But it works. 9/10
