Vicki and I saw the movie Waltz with Bashir, which I think should have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film last weekend. The movie is a documentary shot in animation. The sound tract is by Max Richter and is extraordinary. The subject is the Israeli incursion into Lebanon told by Israeli soldiers dealing with the horrific psychological impact it had on them. The plot listed on Wikipedia is below the Trailer in this post. The film has been banned in several Arab countries. It seems like it would more likely be banned in Israel and shown in Arab countries. I'm thankful that Israel allows a free and vigorous criticism of its politics, policies and the realities that I'm sure they wish had never happened. The film left animation in the last few minutes and morphed into actual footage of Palestinian women shrieking in terror and hysteria over the Sabra and Shatila massacre. My God have Mercy and help us seek peace and an end to war.
The PLOT (Wikipedia) In 1982, Ari Folman was a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.
In 2006, he meets with a friend from his army service period, who tells
him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the Lebanon
War. Folman is surprised to find that he does not remember a thing from
that period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to tell. In his memory, he and his soldier friends are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut
under the light of flares descending over the city. Folman rushes off
to meet another friend from his army service, who advises him to
discuss it with other people who were in Beirut at the same time in
order to understand what happened there and to relive his own memory.
Folman converses with friends, a psychologist and the reporter Ron Ben-Yishai who was in Beirut at the time.
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