Friday, April 3, 2009

Waltz With Bashir

Israel  

This animated feature was beautiful to look at but very painful to absorb. It concerns the slaughter at Sabra and Shatila during one of the wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors. We follow a soldier who has repressed the memory of his participation in the massacre and after we see what he saw, even in stylized form, we can see why.

Included the first hard core porn I've seen in a mainstream film.

I  continually marveled at the tech and artistic achievement on display all through the film but the final 15 minutes wiped all that away and flooded the senses with the enormity of the crimes. Switching to real life at the end was enormously powerful.

I'm glad I saw it but I couldn't honestly recommend it to anyone.

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