"Waltz with Bashir" - the world's first animated documentary

Francesco 2022-04-20 09:02:00

This is an innovation in film history. Use the form of animation as a form of expression for documentaries. "Waltzing with Bashir" is the world's first animated documentary.
As director Ari Folman stated in his own creation: If I conduct interviews with several parties in the form of traditional documentaries, face-to-face static interviews, it is not enough to reflect the fluctuations of the war mood at that time, nor can it reflect the war at that time. historical background.
When director Ari Folman was looking for investment for the film, he faced questions from 40 producers, 38 of whom asked why he wanted to use animated pictures to show the truth of history? In the end, a French producer, the producer of the film, made an investment decision on the spot.
As director Ari himself said: film is his only expression. Movies are surreal, and war is surreal. It's a perfect chimera.
The plot of the film is well known, not to mention. Politics, war, history, death, dreams, hopes, depression, humanity, and cruelty fill the entire film. But the director didn't want the audience to see the film just as a political documentary, but wanted to be considered an art film.
Collective amnesia, lost memories, unbearable memories. As a soldier of the year, the director has isolated this experience as a virus in his memory. In psychology, it is: selective forgetting.
The unaltered last 50 seconds of the film is really the shot, which is the finishing touch. While reflecting the cruelty of the massacre, it also indicates that the film is a documentary, a literary documentary.
As a bystander, one who watched helplessly and helplessly watch the tragedy of the Holocaust happen. It is difficult to forgive one's sins. Although the river of history has flown for 20 years, the nightmare of that night is still vivid in my mind.
Tomorrow is Tomb-sweeping Day, which celebrates our ancestors.
Today, let's reminisce about the history of other countries.

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Extended Reading
  • Kelvin 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    [A] The incident was based on the 1982 massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Beirut, Sabala and Shatila, but animation was chosen as the medium of expression, and a lot of personal dream memories were added to the incident record, as well as various The surreal-like art passages (the mad dog chase and the machine gun waltz at the beginning) blur the boundaries between reality and magic in an almost perfect audio-visual experience. The live-action scene at the end actually aggravated this suffocating atmosphere. I don’t know if this is a real hell on earth, or just a nightmare that doesn’t want to go away.

  • Flo 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    Life can not bear the forgetting picture is very beautiful

Waltz with Bashir quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Ari Folman: After the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, I lost my memory. Now in order to remember, I am looking for those who can never forget.

  • Himself - Interviewee: Memory is dynamic, it's alive. If some details are missing, memory fills the holes with things that never happened.