In one of the DVD extras, Director/Writer Ari Folman examines his own “Post Traumatic Sketch Disorder,” by asking, “Is a digital image consisting of thoughts as lines and digital information – is it more real? Is a drawn image talking with real sound less true? Who can say? Who is to judge?” As a viewer, I judged this to be a fascinating and effective combination of animation and personal/historical documentary. In September of 1982, Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated. In response, Gemayel’s Phalangist political party militia surrounded Sabra and Shatila, two Palestinian refugee camps within Beruit, and massacred the inhabitants under the watch of the Israeli Defense Force, which was then controlling Lebanon’s Beruit. The UN quickly labeled the incident a genocide. In Waltz with Bashir, Folman, who was a young Israeli soldier at time, realizes that he has no memory of his possible involvement. He sets about trying to jog his memory by interviewing others who were on the front during that time. Woven together, these stories paint a vivid picture of the brutality of war and its aftermath. No rotosoping was used in this film, which is a testament to the skill of the animation, which is often photographic in quality though some motions aren’t entirely lifelike. At times hallucinatory, this film is fantastic and important.