If the film were presented with ordinary images, it might be submerged in the vast ocean of anti-war documentaries, which is a bit cold-blooded, but thanks to this rather unique animation performance, this documentary can be among many of the same genre. stand out. There is also a big advantage to using animation to express, because these people who experienced the war in the film because of this kind of mental trauma, the brain automatically chooses the emergency mechanism, sealing off many memories, even if the body can still feel some incongruity, But I can't recall the nightmares, hallucinations, and subconscious fantasies of these people. What else can compare to the high degree of freedom of animation.
Those who follow current affairs are definitely not unfamiliar with this history. The film tells the history of the three-day massacre in Beirut concentration camp during the Israeli-Palestinian war in 1982. The director and other soldiers were nearby at the time. At the end of the film, there is a real video file after the massacre. Seeing those faces, everything is connected. The unremembered past of the protagonist is the prototype of the sad and desperate faces at the beginning of the film.
Watching this film, I feel very sad. Usually, the news broadcasts the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They are all women, old people and children with blood on their faces and want to cry without tears. Running, devastated buildings, a dead country. Although this did not happen in our country, while we were eating and sleeping, there was a massacre in a certain corner of the world, and the casualties were not only soldiers, but more civilians. I was really angry when I read this kind of news. The most unbearable thing is to see the sad expressions of the victims. Every time, they will doubt the meaning of religion and race. Why does this kind of thing keep happening? People who take advantage of them always emerge in an endless stream.
After watching this movie, I can't find anything to describe it other than a heavy heart. Although I have watched a lot of documentaries and movies about the Holocaust, I will never be numb. I feel uncomfortable every time I watch it. No. In addition, although there are many good music and songs in it, the lyrics and the scenes with the melody are really impossible to relax. Apart from all ideological things, it is so easy for human beings to kill each other. The same history Repeatedly. For people of the same latitude, what can I do for them? The feeling of powerlessness spreads throughout the body. . . . .
Supplementary History:
The First Lebanon War and the Sabra-Shatila Massacre
In June 1982, the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon in response to a protracted bomb attack by Lebanese terrorists on northern Israeli towns. The original plan of the Israeli government was to open a 40-kilometer security zone on the Lebanese-Israeli border. In fact, Sharon, then Israel's defense minister, had other plans. Sharon's wishful thinking is that the army will advance to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and then support his ally, Bashir Gemayal, to take the position of President of Lebanon, so that northern Israel becomes safe and the defense forces can Concentrate on dealing with another powerful enemy, Syria. Only Sharon and a few senior military officers knew of the plan, and while the Israeli government only approved the 40-kilometer security zone for the IDF, Sharon's mechanized forces rushed straight to Beirut.
It only took less than a week for the National Defense Forces to come under the city of Beirut. However, before entering the city, a problem emerged, that is, the Wehrmacht's invading capital division in foreign countries was unknown, and the Israeli army suffered casualties every day in this operation, but it had nothing to do with protecting the northern towns. This is undoubtedly reminiscent of the ridiculous Vietnam War. Two months later, in August, the Israeli army was still stationed outside Beirut on standby. At the same time, the Israeli government reached an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the PLO fighters were evacuated from Beirut by boat to Tunisia. Besiege Beirut again. That same week, Bashir Gemayal, a senior commander of Lebanon's Christian military forces, was elected president of Lebanon. Gemayal is young and handsome, very charismatic, and has outstanding talents. He is admired by his subordinates and favored by the upper echelons of Israel. He assumed the presidency of Lebanon and was seen as an immediate easing of tense border relations between Israel and Lebanon.
However, Gemayal was killed in a bomb attack while giving a speech in East Beirut, and no one is responsible for the murder to this day. It is generally believed that the main messengers of the murder are Syrians or Palestinians, or it may be carried out jointly by the two parties. On the afternoon of the day Gemayal was killed, the Israeli army began to attack West Beirut, which for a long time has been mainly populated by Palestinian refugees. The Israeli army surrounded the Sabra-Shatila refugee camp. In the evening, Gemayal's forces marched towards the Sabra-Shatila refugee camp, already swept away by a fever of revenge. In the middle of the night, Gemayal's troops entered the Israeli defense zone and began to search for the PLO soldiers. In fact, there are no soldiers in the camp, who had gone to Tunisia two weeks ago. Two days before Gemayal's troops entered the camp, people could only hear some gunshots coming from inside. On the third day, a woman fled outside the Israeli camp, and the truth was revealed. Gemayal's troops killed all Palestinians in the refugee camp in three days, men, women, the elderly, and children. It is estimated that 3,000 people were killed in this inhumane massacre. .
News of the massacre shook the world, with thousands of Israeli civilians asking the government to become a special committee to investigate the responsibility of Israeli politicians and senior military officials in the incident. Sharon was convicted by the special committee for failing to take effective measures to stop the massacre. He resigned soon after, but 20 years later, he became Prime Minister of Israel.
The Beirut Massacre: At 4:10
pm on September 14, 1982, in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, an important meeting was being held in the headquarters building of the Falangist Party. Suddenly, with a loud bang, a pre-placed 200kg bomb exploded. Immediately, the meeting room was filled with smoke and flesh and blood, the host of the meeting fell in a pool of blood, and the young Lebanese President-elect Behir Gemayel was killed.
The first result of this incident was that Israel used it as an excuse to invade Beirut. That's exactly what Israel dreams of, as it looks for opportunities to slaughter Palestinians living in Beirut refugee camps. As early as three months ago, it was decided within Israel to massacre Palestinian civilians by extremists pretending to be Lebanese right-wing militias on the pretext that after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) withdrew from Beirut in August, it left behind some 2,000 guerrilla fighters. In order to "restore and maintain order in Beirut", "search for the remaining Palestinian guerrillas". Now, the death of Behir Gemayel is the perfect opportunity to realize this bloody plan. However, the Israelis were afraid of further condemnation by the world public opinion, so they themselves minimized appearances in this massacre.
At 2:00 a.m. on September 15, the Israeli army quickly moved into West Beirut and surrounded Shatila and Sabra, two Palestinian refugee camps in the southwest of Beirut. At this time, thousands of Palestinian civilians are sleeping soundly. These kind-hearted people did not expect that in their dreams, disasters are coming, and a bloody massacre is quietly rushing towards them.
On the afternoon of September 15, Lebanese right-wing extremists began military transportation, and trucks drove from East Beirut to the international airport at the southern end of West Beirut. Around the same time, soldiers from another faction splintered from the Christian Falangist Party, Israel-aligned Major Haddad, also marched towards the airport along Israeli-controlled roads. A headquarters called the "Operation Room" was set up in the airport, and an Israeli liaison officer served as the deputy of the "Operation Room". Throughout the afternoon, Israeli forces outside the camp bombarded the camp with intensive artillery fire, destroying the southern end of the Shatila camp, where the executioners were supposed to enter the camp. At 5 p.m., a team of about 1,200 gathered at a golf course near Beirut International Airport. The team follows pre-painted road signs, which are placed every 50 yards. Road signs lead to a new assembly point in front of the camp: the intersection where the Kuwaiti embassy is located.
At this time, Israel deployed most of its troops to the west of the Shatila refugee camp. They placed at least 12 tanks and armored personnel carriers along Rue Chamont. They also set up a command post on the roof of a seven-story building at the bombed UN agency, where soldiers with binoculars were stationed. Another observation post was established on a nearby high-rise building. From these two places you can overlook the entire refugee camp. Before the operation began, Israeli commanders could be seen consulting with right-wing extremists. Plans for bloodbath camps are ready.
Around 6 o'clock, the Israeli army put a group of right-wingers into the camp from the south gate, and the massacre began. At this time, Israel began artillery support. As night fell, Israel began firing flares again, and Israeli planes circled overhead, casting more flares to illuminate the scene of the massacre. Around 6:30, gunshots replaced the cannons, indicating that innocent civilians in Palestine were being killed one by one. Around 7 a.m., a group of Palestinians flocked to a Gaza hospital between two refugee camps to seek shelter. Many screaming Palestinian women ran out of the camp to cry for help for their children and husbands, but Israeli soldiers ignored them.
The massacre continued overnight. The two refugee camps became massacres, with the bodies of thousands of men, women and children lying littered, some lying on the streets, and some being killed in their homes. Some men were bound, tied together and dragged on trucks. Some youths had their genitals cut off, some had their throats cut off, some had their nipples cut off, some had their heads cut off, and some women had their genitals cut off. Hold tight to your baby to die. A few days later, when the International Red Cross personnel were cleaning up the massacre site, people saw corpses lifted from the rubble one by one, and the faces of the victims who were suddenly faced with death in agony were frightening and shocking. Point out. Groups of Palestinians wept bitterly around the piles of corpses, and shrill cries were heard from time to time. Some survivors later recalled: "It was a hell on the night of the 16th, the sky never got dark, the gunfire never stopped, and people kept screaming."
On the morning of September 17, news of the massacre had spread everywhere, and the camp was full of terror. Groups of refugees left the Gaza hospital and fled north. About 40 patients also fled with these refugees. At this time, the massacre seemed to have eased temporarily, but the attention of the murderers turned to another hospital, Akka Hospital. Four doctors from this hospital left the hospital with white flags, but a grenade was thrown at them and three doctors were killed on the spot. After a while, a team of executioners came to the hospital, they gang-raped a 19-year-old Palestinian female nurse, and then killed her. Two other Palestinian doctors were taken out of the hospital and their whereabouts were unknown. Judging from the traces left on the ground of the refugee camp, some soldiers were leaning against the wall, eating snacks and smoking while killing people for fun. Some food crates were left on the ground.
On the afternoon of the 17th, the murderers began to cover up their crimes. At about 3 o'clock, a bulldozer appeared on the street in Shatila, and the shovel of the bulldozer was full of corpses. At the entrance of the Shatila refugee camp, 90 corpses were hastily piled up, with gravel and bricks among the corpses. Some Palestinian civilians were killed when bulldozers levelled their houses. At the same time, several bulldozers rumbled out of the Sabra refugee camp. A large grave had been dug outside the western wall of the refugee camp, and a large number of corpses were buried in the pit. It is only about 100 meters away from the Israeli command post.
On the morning of September 18, while covering up the crime, the massacre continued until about 10:30, when a group of Israeli soldiers had just entered the refugee camp and there were no more people to kill. The death toll caused by the massacre that lasted for 40 hours cannot be accurately counted, some say 1,000, some say 1,500, and some say thousands.
Recorded at 2009-02-28 00:36
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