I have this in my queue, and now I’m more interested than before, even knowing the ending. Thanks for the teaser.
It’s a wonderful movie and one of the most unique, visually captivating film in recent memory. The images take on an almost otherworldly lucidity that at times feels like a spiritual out-of-body-experience. Haunting.
an awesome movie shows the trauma of the human mind and how we sometimes dis relate ourselves to the events that has changed our life.
this movies shows the impact of war and how leaders of the world sometimes force us to do things we don’t want to in the name of country or god.
the best thing about this film is definitely its screenplay how the story moves and how each character give his inputs to the main protagonist to the reach the conclusion for his weird dreams. the dreams sequences are amazing ,i was thinking if this was an live action we would not have felt what we did.
all in all an awesome by flick forman that made me thinking wow world is full of genius writers.
Col. Dax
Ari Folman’s 2008 film Waltz with Bashir is an extremely haunting, surreal, and beautiful portrait on the nature of memory, and the brutality of war. The film spends much of its running time trying to reconstruct events, all the while questioning how such information is reliable. The events took place decades ago, the people the filmmaker can talk to where never actually involved with the events being spoken of, and Folman himself has absolutely no memory of the event so he cannot say what is or isn’t absolutely true.
The film is about truth, though, it is not about Ari Folman’s truth, or Israel’s truth, or Lebanon’s, or anyone else’s. It is about the total undeniable truth of the image. The animated sequences are a metaphor in themselves, saying, “this is all false. The dream sequence is false. The flashbacks are false. The dialogue scenes are false. Everything animated is false.” The truth in the film is the ending. It is an ending that can keep one up at night pondering the brutality, and inhumanity of one man’s actions toward another. The real time images of a massacred people, a people that witnessed genocide right in front of them, a people that saw their sons, daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents, etc. killed as they sat next to them… or worse the images of a person who’s searching for someone they will eventually find to be dead. The image of slaughter perpetrated by Christian Phalangists, and allowed by Israeli forces.
http://www.theauteurs.com/films/470
Ari Folman
Waltz with Bashir
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