Comfortably numb

I chose to analyze the video "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. It was the symbolic videos I have ever seen, just like any of their other videos. They usually have a lot of weird art and odd scenes in them. This video comes from the Wall album and movie. It is a great song about the lead singer's, Pink, emotional journey through his life as he is in a drug related malaise from his addiction to heroine and many other drugs. It is full of dual meaning and symbolism.
The video starts off with him in a very disoriented drug- related state in his hotel room before a concert. His manager busts in and forces the doctors to try to get him ready to perform for a concert that he was suppose to put on right now. This starts showing his struggle, and his main meaning of this video. He wants to escape this world he was thrown into and go back to his inner paradise. The only problem is the rockstar life keeps pulling him back in until it causes him to go over the edge. So, as the pandemonium is occurring around him in his room as they try to bring him back to consciousness, he visualizes his childhood memory of him rescuing a rat. This feeling of bliss and comfortableness comes from his memories of a simpler and a much more innocent time. It is much brighter of a scene than his dark room. This is also where the music begins to lighten up.
The video then shows him developing an illness as a young kid and switches back to him as an adult. As a kid he is forced to stay in bed and rest. As an adult he is slapped awake and injected with a syringe of a drug counter-active. The doctor warns him he will feel sick and immediately you see an image of maggots. It is shocking and gross to convey the sickness. This is followed by him screaming from the sickness. It's very important that you see him as a kid getting sick and him being forced awake. Its dark in both worlds now and his paradise of innocence is beginning to crumble as he is forced back to reality. The rat he rescued dies and he is seen scared as the doctor comes. The visuals begin to makes the viewer feel uneasy and show his displeasure as he returns.
Once the crew have Pink conscious, they begin forcing his clothes on him and cleaning up. At this point he leaves his paradise and the people of his past walk away to give you the feeling of a sad good bye. You see his dead dad, his evil teacher and his doctor just leaving and walking by. Now, he is stuck in the real world and is being drug down the hall. The camera angle is turning and twisting and Pink begins to have his skin melt. This is scary because it is moving very wildly, has constant flashes to maggots and he looks creepy in a dark hall way. This expresses his end because he is far from his paradise and feels like a dark place to be in. This was his death and him losing his comfortable numbing.