Waltz With Bashir: inflicting graphic violence on spiritial and political apathy and indiference

Waltz with Bashir is the best adult theme animated film of the decade. It takes on the theme of war in a manner I have never seen before. The film is about a filmmaker trying to reconstruct his memories of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the 1980's, memories that have been blocked due to post traumatic stress. On the advice of a psychiatrist, he seeks out others he knows from the war, especially someone who appears in a reoccurring dream about what he thinks was a prelude to a civilian massacre. The film also has some useful things to say about memory. Walt with Bashir shows the debasement of a portion of the Israeli officer core, by showing a commanding officer watching a animated parody of a pornographic film, and only by putting that in context can it be justified. The technique of animation here has not made weaponry violence, death, or corpses any less graphic than the usual depiction. There is absolutely nothing cartoonish about it The quality of the voice acting is also very good. It is quite educational as far as the history of that war. The film is neither anti-Israeli or anti-Palestinian, but the Christian Phalangists come off with no-immediate redemption in the film. That's not to say it's anti-Christian. In fact when the movie was finished I made the sign of the cross and prayed. I must also warn you that it does contain a non-animated scene that make the anti-Nazi film of Auschwitz, Night and Fog, look tame.