Memory is alive?

Dwight 2022-03-21 09:02:25

There is a disease called "dissociative amnesia", that is, a person is in an environment that he does not agree with and he cannot leave, so he pretends that he is not a participant but an observer. He pretended that he was looking out of the camera, so he could take the brutal war and the bloody corpses as the content of the movie, and he was an outsider in life.
This is what happened to the protagonist of the film, who forgot everything about the Beirut war, until one day, he wanted to get his memory back. That is, his camera is broken, and he intends to face reality again. He searched for all the memories of being in Lebanon, and basically he recalled them all, but only about the Holocaust, no one shared his experience with him, even his companions he saw in his dreams denied it happened. the massacre he recalls. Is it true that, as psychologists say, this is just a false memory created by people because of lack, is the Beirut massacre false? Later, he went to look for the people who had gone through the massacre, and found an officer, and this is what happened that day: Israel told the refugee camps to withdraw from Beirut, and all those who remained were traitors, but in two villages, long guns The party members slaughtered the innocent refugees inside and carved crosses on their chests. He saw the Falangists bring an old man into the house, he made the old man kneel, and the old man did not kneel, so he shot him in the knee, and in the stomach and head. The officer reported the matter to the headquarters, but the headquarters said that the army would deal with it. In fact, the headquarters was at a high place, and it must have been better than the officer to see the ongoing massacre. Apparently this is allowed. The officer reported to Sharon, Sharon said: Have you seen it with your own eyes? The officer said: No, but there were many witnesses. Sharon said: Thank you for letting me know, Happy New Year! This is what the Falangists did! And Israel assisted their Christian friends in Lebanon!
The main reason for the protagonist's amnesia is that he unknowingly sided with groups that were similar to Nazi actions. And he and his parents were also victims of Auschwitz. He became the kind of person he hated, so he chose to forget, let the living memory become a nightmare
At the end of the film, suddenly from cartoons to real images, women and children in Lebanon, corpses, heavy heartbeats ...tell us that it's not fantasy.

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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.