It is an amazing film! Without making any clear, explicit political statement, it fully uncovers the brutality, irrationality and usefulness of any war and army. This is through a very interesting and very well directed story connecting personal feelings, characters, relations with shocking pictures, action and anxiety. Actually, the most shocking and unforgettable part for me was after the film: I watched it during the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the director was there for a Q&A session. The first question was whether there are any autobiographic elements in the film and the very simple, modest and direct answer was that the director was itself part of the tank crew, the gunner, maybe the most tragic figure in the film!
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Waltz with Bashir
(2008)
A great movie generates an interesting question
17 November 2008
I just watched the movie in 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. I liked it a lot in all aspects: overall story and idea, animation, direction, music etc. But after the film I have the following question.
The film blames the Israeli activities during the Lebanon war. The poor efficiency of the Israeli army and of course the obvious support for the massacre are among the main parts of the story. Not even anti-Israel activities are presented or mentioned in any part of the film to provide a "support" for such activities. I find this of course very open-minded and great to come from an Israeli production but I am astonished that this received the official support of Israel based organizations like The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & T.V. and the Israel Film Fund. And then all these awards from the Israeli Academy.
Again I think this is great but are all these organizations really so open-minded and in peace with the not so long past or I am missing something?
The film blames the Israeli activities during the Lebanon war. The poor efficiency of the Israeli army and of course the obvious support for the massacre are among the main parts of the story. Not even anti-Israel activities are presented or mentioned in any part of the film to provide a "support" for such activities. I find this of course very open-minded and great to come from an Israeli production but I am astonished that this received the official support of Israel based organizations like The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & T.V. and the Israel Film Fund. And then all these awards from the Israeli Academy.
Again I think this is great but are all these organizations really so open-minded and in peace with the not so long past or I am missing something?
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