Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Waltz with Bashir (2008) is a work of courage and creativity. It bravely faced the massacre in the Beirut refugee camp in Lebanon in 1982 and broke the barriers between animation and real life, records and plots. Suppose animation is the form of expression he adopts. Interviewing them one by one will belong to the category of documentaries. In that case, however, those past events that are told in their mouths through the simulation of animation have the dimension of drama films. On the other hand, Honess Roe believes that one of the main features of animated documentaries is the (often pleasurable) ontological tension between textual, extra-textual and referent. In my opinion, this work perfectly interprets this sentence.
In this week’s animation documentary discussion, I chose ‘Waltz with Bashir’, because he portrayed the cruelty of war very realistically, and let the audience deeply feel the current atmosphere through animation.
Bradshaw, P. (2008) Film review: Waltz with Bashir, The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/21/waltz-with-bashir-folman (Accessed: January 6, 2023).