What impresses me most about this animation is its music. The content is heavy, the music is light, the brutal war scenes and the elegant piano sound are seamlessly integrated, but let a sadness slowly flow in our hearts. The switching between dreams and reality, the unscrupulous performance of a large number of brutal and bloody plots, the mad dog chase under the Bach soundtrack, the massacre of the masses in the happy rock, the tank stationed in the city with the folk song "Good Morning Lebanon", and the beautiful slow motion in the forest by Chopin concerto It is the fall of a child with a gun and the most classic waltz under a hail of bullets. All these seemingly joking but ironic "high-contrast cruel reality" push the desperate and crazy side of war to the extreme. I especially liked the scene where the young soldiers jumped out of the bunker tunnels and waltzed recklessly in the hail of bullets. Bullets from the roof landed at his feet, like shadows cast by spotlights, spun into the dust in dance steps to the music, leaving only pictures of Bashir on the wall full of bullet holes.
Watching this animated film was like having an unreal nightmare, until the real documentary image that appeared at the end of the film pulled me back from the dream to reality. Foreman is obviously trying to emphasize to the audience that what you are seeing is not a dream, but a real massacre that took place in Lebanon. Just a few years ago, this scene was staged again in a small village on the Palestinian-Israeli border. The morbid war has still not left our reality.
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