The Israeli director who joined the army selectively lost his memory of the massacre in Lebanon in 1982 , a friend who dreamed of twenty-six vicious dogs reminded him that the director's army was just across the street from the massacre scene, and he was there. So, the director visited various friends in the army who had lost contact for a long time, turned to psychiatrists and journalists at the time, in order to retrieve the lost memory, in order to explain the dream about the sea...
This is a Kafkaesque documentary , In addition to confirming and guaranteeing their own survival, the war individual in this forgotten history, everything else is absurd: the night of the expedition hallucinations of the goddess of the sea, the aimless machine gun shooting at the boundless night, the outing-like driving of tanks The troops were wiped out in a trance, the children with rocket launchers in the orchard, the soldiers dancing the waltz in the street battle... What better way to express the mood of such soldiers than animation? Until the end of the massacre, the real news footage of the corpses in just a few minutes quickly brought the emotions of this animated documentary back to reality; all kinds of dazed and false may be just excuses, and all kinds of ideologies may be just excuses, facing the scorched children in the rubble At least, these soldiers couldn't explain to themselves how this indirect Holocaust acquiesced by the Jews was essentially different from the Nazi concentration camps.
Killing and hating may just be another human nature.
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