Review of Waltz with Bashir (2008) by Laura G — 08 Aug 2009

"Draw all you want, but don't film" - something like that says Carmi to Ari while he's being questioned by the second one about his memories of the war they were involved in, more than 20 years ago.

I must say I can't imagine this film being other than an animated film; I think the animation makes it more believable or realistic, as strange as it may sound.

Most of the movie we're watching representations of memories of several former soldiers, and we see them the way memories and dreams look like in our minds, with different colors, different moods; when we see our memories or dreams we rarely see them exactly as they were, we see them in a more surrealistic way, we can sense the feelings and the moods in them, even though the images may not look as acquaret.

With that said, I don't mean the animation is lame, on the contrary, is one of the best animations I've seen, the selection of colours, body motions and expressions are as perfect as they can be, that at times you even get to forget it's an animated film.

Throughout the movie we ride in a nearly surreal dream, but as all dreams or memories, reality hits you in the end.