Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary directed by Ari Folman. The movie has been recognized of one of the best films of 2008, also one of the best Anti- war movies to come out of the Middle East. The movie is a documentary, it is a journey made by the films protagonist Ari Folman and his psychological journey of war. He participated in the 1982 Israel invasion of Palestine. But somehow he does not remember any detail of it, he is haunted by this dream and tries to find meaning behind this hallucination. Through out the movie we see him interview many of his friends that went to the same war, and piece by piece he attempts to remember the war.
The war happening in the film is the Israel invasion of Lebanon where the Israeli invaded Palestine through the south of Beirut to push out PLO militant. In the film its also shows the massacre of Sabra and Shantila, which were little towns used as refugee camp and how the Lebanese Christian Militia, also known as the Phalangist massacred innocent Palestinian civilians these include; children, women, older citizens, male, etc..
This movie is quite the psychological journey its puts you into the soldier situation and it ridicules war and depicts it as a stupid entity and that war isnt necessary and often time most of the soldiers are un aware of the situation at hand and are just told to shoot anything that walks by you, it shows the ignorance and irresponsibility of war. It also shows how many of these soldiers often time dont remember what happend during a long and gruesome war because their minds push out the intense memory. It is quite frankly one of the best Anti War movies in the last 25 years. I will discuss more in class..
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