Animation and highly stylized representations were used (except for the final scene of the film) in recreating the actual battle of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the experience of wounded soldiers, and the massacre of Muslims in Lebanon. Obviously, these animation passages are strongly subjective, even expressionistic in nature. They tried to view the war like overwhelmed, bewildered Israeli soldiers. Of course, filmmakers see it this way too. Animated their memories of the war, interspersed with a series of real interviews. As an expression of subjective states of mind, the film achieves a high degree of convincing power, even though it deviates from the norm of documentation in any sense of realism.
--Bill Nichols, "Introduction to Documentary"
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