Waltz with Bashir (2008)

2024-07-26

No shortage of atrocities in this month’s theme we’re calling GLORY & PROPAGANDA and so we dive into another brutal event in a movie that presents itself in an animated hybrid documentary style. Israeli media, and US media for that matter, doesn’t often show its military actions in such a straightforward, yet resentful, manner but the Sabra and Shatila Massacre committed by the Philangist forces under the support of the IDF is a particularly challenging event to deny. Don’t worry though, the defense minister that oversaw the mass murder of over 2,000 Palestinians and Shia Lebanese was forced to step down…and later became the fucking Prime Minister of Israel. Truly that seems like more accountability than we’re seeing from that country today. Ari Folman’s 2008 film “WALTZ WITH BASHIR” is an animated personal account of his time as a soldier in Beirut in the Lebanese War and his journey, after the fact, to piece together the trauma his mind would rather forget. A dreamy feature animated in that “motion comic” style, this unique film was quite gushed over in its time. How does this film hold up today as new horrors rage along that unfortunate part of the Mediterranean? It’s certainly worthy in its educational factor and is likely many western people’s introduction to the existence of the massacre it covers. Hear us tell of it.

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