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"Waltz with Bush" by Ari Folman


(Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8f7n2VYF04 )

now we understand. The pass that divides the world of film in live and that of the animated film has been exceeded, indeed we can almost say that no longer exists. Now the animation has become a way of telling and not a genre unto itself, differentiated from the rest of the film and to a limited audience of minors. In reality of cartoons for adults have always been there, just think of Ralph Bakshi, Japanese anime to or Miyazaki. But in recent years, want the spread of technologies used, the wall that surrounded the world of animation has collapsed completely. It matters little whether it is hyper-technology of the Disney / Pixar, Zemeckis's motion capture, drawings in black & white pictures of Persepolis or the actors of the films of Richard Linklater, the moral is that now the animation is seen for what should actually be: a technique to give greater rein to creativity and a half to tell stories with the direct drive would be difficult to tell.

"Waltz with Bashir", signed by former Israeli soldier, Ari Folman, not just a film about the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, not a war film Lebanese civilians. It 'a film about the collective memory and the relationship between the horror and our memories. Perhaps most of all, the will of Folman is to say that violence is so inhuman that our brains do not even want to remember. The war is not part of man (or at least should not) so that our mind is repugnant, to remove the hides. "Waltz with Bashir" is a film of suggestions rather than facts, just as our memories that come together, they hide behind other memories, other thoughts. For this reason the choice of the animation fits perfectly, because it was impossible to tell those suggestions so effectively through the "live action". The story unfolds like a documentary, in a very cinematic, with a kind of investigations required to fill gaps in memory Folman. The stories that his ex-comrades make him not be so much to enrich the story of the war from a historical point of view politically, but they tell us themselves. Fragments of life from the mortars, stories of dreams, desires and fears. Personal stories that remind us of the absurdity, the fears and nightmares of every war.

The limit of the film but is likely to be just that. While it is right that Folman, as a former Israeli soldier stories, and can tell, these days only from the standpoint of Israel, this ends up giving the film a little breath, which could appear only as a tribute to his former comrades, a reunion to remember those bad times, but without saying anything more about that particular war or conflict. Even as the final Folman focuses more on the massacre itself, does not add much more to what we already knew. Remains what it is, a personal memory, even a small number of personal memories, which combined together give a limited view on the clashes and massacres, without going into too much.

Beautiful animation, that combines 3D graphics, classic design and flash animation. Animation supported by a punk rock music at times that blends well with the images from the strong contrasts and bright colors. A good experiment might have needed more courage and more comprehensive.