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 […]
I also found very interesting information about the film on its web page. http://waltzwithbashir.com/home.html
I just wanted to add some thoughts to what we discussed in class today, focusing on sound and music, pack mentality metaphors and the reflection to the Holocaust and Nazis, and the aestheics and technique of the ending (which I thought was undeniably powerful) On sound/music, when we went over the introduction of the film […]
The animation movie, “Waltz with Bushir,” recaps the Lebanese-Israeli War with flashbacks and nightmares of the fearsome memories. It begins with a pack of twenty-six wild dogs running frantically. The only colors of the background are black, white, and gray, while the dogs’ eyes are yellow, depicting a “ready to kill” look. By having this […]
So i was going through YouTube videos and came across this one. I feel this is so appropriate for our class. It gives a perspective of soldiers in foreign lands from someone that is defenseless just watching it all happen. How they just walk around foreign lands “as if they owned it”, “hungry for human […]
I was not present in class on Tuesday, and just like the previous post, I apologize if I discuss a point that was already raised in class. I know I am a little late, but please bear with me here. My main focus of this post is from pages 123 to 201. This section of […]
A great author once told me that the first paragraph, no, the first sentence is the most important line of a good book. I think the same can be said with video media, especially a movie, where the first 5-15 minutes can often hold the most important aspects of the story. In Waltz With Bashir, […]
We spoke in class about how everyone was affected emotionally by this book. While normally I would be in the minority of the people who weren’t bothered by the book, this book was something a little different. The ideas of torture, murders, and rape did not affect me, not because they are not terrible things, […]
Although I was not in class on Tuesday, I still wanted to put my two cents in on “S.” (forgive me if I touch upon points presented in class, but as I pointed out I was not present). I want to start out with the quote on pg. 38, the second paragraph starting with “In […]