Waltz with Bashir - 2008 - Ari Folman
Waltz with Bashir is a unique film.
It challenges us as the viewer, but mostly because it’s about Ari Folman, the director, challenging himself.
What was his involvement in the massacre in Beirut?
Why did he do nothing to stop it?
Can animation better portray reality than video?
The film is the result of these question.
We follow Folman as he interviews his army comrades, and we recreate his lost memories in a beautiful rotoscope style entirely created in Photoshop, Flash, and After Effects.
But it’s not all about death.
This was the 80s and it uses european and Israeli music to great effect, and we get to see a rather comedic caricature of 80s porn.
Overall it was a thought provoking film with incredible graphics and a rather poignant shift at the end.
Great.
