Joe Sacco’s comic book, though scant in text compared to the archetypal novel, is perhaps the most telling piece of literature I’ve come across in relating the ordeals of the Palestinian people. It’s such a raw and gritty account because it takes the actual words that people have uttered and gives them a face, albeit […]
What makes both Palestine and Waltz with Bashir intriguing is the different outlook we get on the conflicts in the Middle East. Because of U.S. relations with Israel, we are forced to gulp down the anti-Muslim propoganda we are fed, as hard as American media may “try” to show itself in an unbiased light. Like Joe Sacco writes in Palestine, […]
For my final project, I decided I want to encompass all areas of our study-defining war, war as a theatre of experience, global conflicts-in one, with special emphasis on Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Joe Sacco’s Palestine, though my project has little to do with either. The project is a ‘short documentary’–because I’m limiting […]
If anybody knows me I am a person who loves to play devils advocate, that is I bring up many points of view to an arguement only to stir opinions. Lately since black friday and the holidays are looming sales in video games will be booming. In our generation the major push in video games […]
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Hey guys, I wanted to introduce you to one of my favorote songs by a group I really like. It relates to our reading of the Middle East. Hope you think it’s as powerful as I do. But for a little bit of background: Outlandish is a Danish hip-hop group. Its members are Isam Bachiri (born in […]
I don’t want to sound repetitive but I also want to talk about a little bit about the use of music in this movie. I noticed that there were several scenes where they played waltz music in the background when it just didn’t seem right to play that type of music. One of these scenes […]
For me personally, I can’t watch anything gruesome. The sight of blood makes me cringe. The animation consisted of many scenes of slaughter and deaths everywhere but yet I was able to fix my eyes on the screen. On the other hand, once they put in raw video footage at the end, i was left […]
Having just completed the film, “Waltz of Bashir” today in class, I noticed that Ari France used a certain element of the film often, and that was Children. The most obvious example of this was, in fact, the role of children in the Massacre shown in detail towards the end of the film. In this […]
This is a critique of Ari Folman’s decision to use raw video footage of the massacre at the end: Little by little, Folman sneaks up on the subject of Sabra and Chatila. Was he there? Right there? A hundred yards away? Three hundred yards away? Or nowhere near? His confusion testifies to the fog of […]