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What Is Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir?

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The movie ‘Waltz with Bashir’ by Ari Folman is an animated - documentary movie based on the director’s quest to regain the lost memories of the 1982 Lebanon war in which about 2000 civilians in the Palestinian refugee were brutally murdered. According to the film critic Peter Bradshaw, “the maker of the movie Ari Folman has tried to show that the Israelis have forgotten the massacre of 1982 Lebanon” in which the Israeli forces allowed Christian Phalangist militia into Palestinian refugee camps to slaughter civilians. The director, who is a middle aged guy, is having a drink with his friend who is complaining that he is disturbed by the recurring dream of being chased down by 26 dogs. Folman is agitated to learn that he has no memory of his …show more content…

He has submitted his own memory of the Israeli forces, of which he was a part, presided effectively over the mass murder. Folman has given a clear view of the state of the soldiers of the Lebanon war. His coworkers (to whom he went to ask about the war to cure his amnesia) tell him fierce stories of what happened to them during the course of war. One of his friend remembers being on a military marine ship, where he was fascinating about a giant naked woman who saved his life by taking him away with her while all others died in a ship blast. Other friend remembers killing a young Palestinian boy who was trying to attack his unit using a rocket launcher. The last friend whom Folman visited was almost killed in disguise. He had to wait at the lake and later on he swam and miraculously rejoined his troop. Peter Bradshaw and some other film critics question about how much of the above really happened?? As Folman is connecting little pieces of information from his colleagues, he comes over the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Naira Antoun talks about the depiction of Palestinians in the film, “ There is nothing interesting or new in the depiction of Palestinians — they have no names, they don’t speak, they are anonymous”. The real and horrifying footage from Sabra and Shatila at the end of the film is an evidence that the only people in the film who are not animated are the

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