Waltz with Bashir

I thought the movie, Waltz with Bashir, was the best film that we have viewed so far. It had the most powerful message and was very interesting to watch. I enjoyed that it was a graphic film and not an actual documentary because I think it would have been way to hard to sit through it and watch if it was real. The last 2-3 minutes of the film was the most powerful part of the film, which made the rest of it seem real. I did not even know about this massacre until this film.

One powerful message of the film was the songs that were played in it. They all talked about the war almost as if they were making fun of it or they were turning killing into a lighter topic. This is because the film was anti-war and the songs were designed to show how pointless war actually is.

I loved the main character of the film, when he was younger he reminded me of a graphic version of Edward Norton(who is one of my favorite actors). How he did not remember what happened to him during the war and went and interviewed all of these people to figure out what was occuring in his nightmares. It seemed that everyone who he went and talked to had there own struggles with the war and recalling things that happened. This did not surprise me because that is common for someone suffering from PTSD. They block images from their brain because they do not wish to remember them happening. They commonly relive these tragic events through nightmares and hallucinations. This was demonstrated in the main character and also the character at the beginning who was having recurring thoughts about the 26 dogs that he shot during the massacre.

Overall I thought that this movie was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time and would not mind watching it again to get an even better understanding of the message that it was trying to portray.