Waltz With Bashir

I enjoyed the movie Waltz with Bashir. It was a very powerful movie that brought to life a massacre I knew nothing about and had no previous emotional attachment to. The visual animations were also brought a lot to the film. The fact that it was not real people allowed the possibilities for a lot of action scenes such as the cars being run over or many of the other scenes with the tanks possible. It also kept the audience a little bit separated from the reality and harshness of the situation. The thing that brought the most reality to the film though was the interviews. Considering the interviews were from real people that were at the massacre is what brought the characters to life so tremendously. The drawings were so life-like and the motions were so life like that it brought the true emotion of the event to life. It drew some parallels to Maus as the details of the massacre were almost matter of fact to the characters. The way tragedies are dealt with are an area of great debate and discussion and the fact remains that people deal with different situations in different circumstances and this is portrayed beautifully and tragically in Waltz with Bashir.