Waltz with Bashir was released in 2008 directed by Ari Folman,
who is also known for The Congress
(2013) and Made in Israel (2001). For Waltz with Bashir the main
theme was war, and heavily
depended upon the graphic novel style. The voices used in the
films are real veterans from the
Lebanon invasion, including Ari Folman himself, Ron Ben-Yishai,
Ori Sivan and Shmuel Frenkel.
The film consists of Folman interviewing other veterans in an
attempt to re construct his memories
of the Lebanon invasion, after a friend tells him about his
reoccurring nightmare, which made him
realise he couldnt remember anything from the war. The film uses
the voices and names of the real
veterans in the war, and uses their genuine accounts of the
war.
I think that the film was trying to show the world what really
happened in the Lebanon Invasion,
there was conversation at some point during the film where a
therapist mentions that a solider she
was treating tried to separate himself by pretending everything
was from a war film, but the
camera broke and he was unable to pull himself away from the
reality, and I think Folman uses a
similar technique for the audience, he uses animation to show
the story but allows the audience to
believe it isnt real, and to then introduce real footage of the
massacre aftermath pushes the
audience towards the reality of the subject. Which I think was
done exceptionally well. The style of
the animation was bold and created a strong sense of atmosphere.
I would recommend it to other
who are interesting in war films.
