Vals Im Bashir

Anahi 2022-04-22 07:01:39

If memory is alive. What is the death of that memory like.

The film "Waltzing with Bashir" is a discussion from such a context. The representation is animated. However, it is difficult to classify it as an animation genre. Not as philosophical as "The Matrix Animation", not as persistent as "Millennium Actress", not as brutal as "Goodbye Firefly", and yet he has a power that most cartoons don't have.

This power is called truth.

At first, it was recommended by Professor John Merriman in "Yale Course - European History from Thirty Years War to World War II" (this course is also recommended by the way.) Later, in UPC's urban design class, another teacher recommended . After reading it recently, under the suspicion of picking up people's teeth, I recommend it myself.

This is a topic about death, I don't want to say more, and quote a few other people's words:

it has created a new film language, which has caused a strong impact on the audience. To the jury, the film's skill in blending fantasy with historical reality, using music as an additional narrative, was particularly commendable.

——The 9th TokyoFilmex Jury

Forman is a rookie in the field of animation, but now he uses animation to reconstruct memory, psychedelic, dream, possibility and the contrast between the past and the present. This film can hardly be expressed in other ways.

---Roger Ebert ("Chicago Sun-Times")

and concludes himself: whether death can be regarded as non-existence, regardless of memory, or life.

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Extended Reading

Waltz with Bashir quotes

  • Anonymous soldier: What to do? What to do? Why don't you tell us what to do?

    Ari Folman: Shoot!

    Anonymous soldier: On who?

    Ari Folman: How should I know on who? Just shoot!

    Anonymous soldier: Isn't it better to pray?

    Ari Folman: Pray and shoot!

  • [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.