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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Demob Happy
Format:DVD
Hagai Levi, creator of the Israeli TV show 'Be'Tipul' - which became in turn the inspiration for the latest HBO phenomenon, 'In Treatment', currently championed in the UK by The Guardian - said of Israel that "one of our problems as a nation is that in our mind we are still survivors, and sometimes we think that we can do awful things to others because we are survivors." Both 'Be'Tipul' and it US counterpart revolve around the psycho analyst's chair, each episode a single patient's session. Psychoanalysis - both individual and that pertaining to Israeli national identity - also pervades Ari Folman's 'Waltz With Bashir'. The film is a cathartic act of self-therapy, conducted on and by the director himself, with the help of former fellow soldiers: unpeeling an onion of buried memories revolving around his participation in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. His need to recover and clarify the past is provoked by a deeply unsettling, repetitive dream, which suggests a spectre of guilt regarding the events that lead to the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres, a dark chapter in modern Israel's short but troubled history - a history dictated perhaps by a national psychology of survival.
'Waltz With Bashir' is unusual because parts of the film derive from genuine documentary footage in which Folman meets again and interviews his erstwhile Israeli army colleagues in search of a forgotten past. The interviews, like Folman's abstract, fallible memories and dreams, have been richly transformed into animation in a manner that recalls Richard Linklater's visually-striking but emotionally vacant 'A Scanner Darkly'.... Read more ›
'Waltz With Bashir' is unusual because parts of the film derive from genuine documentary footage in which Folman meets again and interviews his erstwhile Israeli army colleagues in search of a forgotten past. The interviews, like Folman's abstract, fallible memories and dreams, have been richly transformed into animation in a manner that recalls Richard Linklater's visually-striking but emotionally vacant 'A Scanner Darkly'.... Read more ›
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
There are so many good points to this film it is hard to start. Very psychological undertone which is expressed throughout the film dictating the effects of post war on memory. The animation style is breathtaking at certain points further conveying the emotional aspects of the characters. The score by Max Richter also impacts upon the scenes especially that of the dogs at the beginning! Overall, love it, watch it now.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This is a trully unforgetable movie about an Israeli soldier trying to remember the events of a fateful day in Beirut during the 1982 invasion.
Without going into the histocracity of the movie I would like to say that is not meant to be taken an historical accoint but as a personal recollection of the events.
I was very impressed with the animation with several novelties that make it stanning to watch. The soundtrack has a mixture of actors and real interviews with Israeli soldiers as well .
The human side of the story ,the futility of war ,the human cost are all perfectly reflected in the movie which also has a very moving and engaging.
Some reviewers give it one stars and call it propaganda but I feel Mr Folman made it very clear that this is not a documentary or an impartial view this is HIS OWN experience put into a film. If anything portraits the Palestinians as vicitms and the Israeli soldiers in the same way as some Vietman films show American soldiers as they walk in a Vietnamesse village and get a bit trigger happy.
Ari Folman ( director ) gives an interview about the film as an extra on the DVD where he explains his reasons for making the movie and his views on the events described in the movie.
Without going into the histocracity of the movie I would like to say that is not meant to be taken an historical accoint but as a personal recollection of the events.
I was very impressed with the animation with several novelties that make it stanning to watch. The soundtrack has a mixture of actors and real interviews with Israeli soldiers as well .
The human side of the story ,the futility of war ,the human cost are all perfectly reflected in the movie which also has a very moving and engaging.
Some reviewers give it one stars and call it propaganda but I feel Mr Folman made it very clear that this is not a documentary or an impartial view this is HIS OWN experience put into a film. If anything portraits the Palestinians as vicitms and the Israeli soldiers in the same way as some Vietman films show American soldiers as they walk in a Vietnamesse village and get a bit trigger happy.
Ari Folman ( director ) gives an interview about the film as an extra on the DVD where he explains his reasons for making the movie and his views on the events described in the movie.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Twenty years after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, of which he was a participant, the writer and director Ari Folman realized that he had little memory of his time there. This included being stationed a few hundred metres from the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila during the three days in which the Phalangist militia massacred the population there.
Waltz with Bashir recounts how, with the help of others who had been there, including fellow soldiers, he began to recover his memory of the events.
Palestinians and Lebanese have no voice in this film. Nevertheless it still represents some of the best impulses in Israeli society, documenting how an ordinary Israeli faces the truth of a particularly vile episode in his nation's history in which he himself was directly implicated.
The massacre in Sabra and Shatila has echoes through history: one Israeli journalist, Ron Ben-Yishai a distinguished war correspondent who was witness to the massacre, recounts how the scene in the camps reminded him of the images of the Warsaw Ghetto.
There are other echoes in Middle Eastern history. One not mentioned in the film is how in 1268, on capturing the city of Antioch, the Sultan Baybars immediately locked the city gates to stop the escape of any of the town's inhabitants as he proceeded to massacre them. Folman argues with this film that the role of the Israeli army during the massacre was the equivalent to Baybars' locking of the gates while their Phalangist allies, Israeli-equipped and in the full knowledge of the highest Israeli military commanders, carried out the slaughter.... Read more ›
Waltz with Bashir recounts how, with the help of others who had been there, including fellow soldiers, he began to recover his memory of the events.
Palestinians and Lebanese have no voice in this film. Nevertheless it still represents some of the best impulses in Israeli society, documenting how an ordinary Israeli faces the truth of a particularly vile episode in his nation's history in which he himself was directly implicated.
The massacre in Sabra and Shatila has echoes through history: one Israeli journalist, Ron Ben-Yishai a distinguished war correspondent who was witness to the massacre, recounts how the scene in the camps reminded him of the images of the Warsaw Ghetto.
There are other echoes in Middle Eastern history. One not mentioned in the film is how in 1268, on capturing the city of Antioch, the Sultan Baybars immediately locked the city gates to stop the escape of any of the town's inhabitants as he proceeded to massacre them. Folman argues with this film that the role of the Israeli army during the massacre was the equivalent to Baybars' locking of the gates while their Phalangist allies, Israeli-equipped and in the full knowledge of the highest Israeli military commanders, carried out the slaughter.... Read more ›
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Interesting film and well put together
Without wanting to talk in cliches, this is both entertaining and informative, particularly since it comes from the perspective of an IDF veteran who clearly has reservations about... Read more
Published 1 month ago by JamesC
5.0 out of 5 stars
A game changer
It is very rare for a work of art to be created which is so radically different from anything else in that art form and in the genre for which it is being made. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Xenophon
5.0 out of 5 stars
A scream from within the depths of a man's soul
Ari Folman has opened up his soul and it is a bleak journey. Animation does not soften the anguish expressed in this film. It gives voice to what post traumatic stress is. Read more
Published 8 months ago by "Belgo Geordie"
4.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly good
I had wanted to see this film for a while, but was put off by what I thought may be a film justifying yet another atrocity committed by Israeli forces. Read more
Published 12 months ago by A. SALMAN
4.0 out of 5 stars
Israeli complicity in Lebanon massacres through the eyes of its...
I'm no going to engage in the debate about the quality of the animation in this film, as in some other reviews. Read more
Published 15 months ago by J. R. Dersley
4.0 out of 5 stars
"I wanted to forget. I didn't want to relive those moments".
Waltz With Bashir is a documentary charting the journey of Ari Folman as he interviews old military comrades in an attempt to jog his memory over events in Beirut during the... Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2011 by @GeekZilla9000
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Waltz with Bashir
I found the film unwatchable. I'm a lover of animation and this is simply god-awful, scruffy, two-dimentional, poorly-animated digital trash. Read more
Published on 21 April 2011 by David Brookes
1.0 out of 5 stars
Should be no stars
Fell asleep and switched this DVD off long before the end.
I read in the British press that it was some great new artistic and interesting take on the middle-east... Read more
I read in the British press that it was some great new artistic and interesting take on the middle-east... Read more
Published on 7 April 2011 by goldenbrown
2.0 out of 5 stars
Missed Opportunity
As a documentary this has the serious failing that it makes the massacre take up far less time than it actually did, as another reviewer has pointed out. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2011 by Johns
4.0 out of 5 stars
Skeleton in a closet...?
An excellent and significant film! It provides an alternative perspective on Israeli collective memory by addressing a moral dilemma: "Can we harm others if we were once harmed? Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2011 by jaroslava
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