![]() The freedom of animation allows him to visualize what they tell him - even their nightmares. The film is structured like a conventional documentary, with Folman visiting old army friends and piecing together what they saw and remember. Consider the great success of "WALL-E," which was greatly entertaining, yet a radical critique of the consumer society. Animation will always be identified, no doubt, with funny animals, but is winning respect as a medium for serious subjects. ![]() This film would be nearly impossible to make any other way. Now he uses it as the best way to reconstruct memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present. He sets out to interview Israeli army friends who were also there, and his film resembles " Rashomon" in the way truth depends not on facts but on who witnessed them, and why.įolman is an Israeli documentarian who has not worked in animation. ![]() It is described to Folman in the course of his attempt to reconstruct what actually happened during days when he was present he has the confused impression that the truth of those days was just outside his grasp. ![]() ![]() "Waltz with Bashir" opens with a recurring nightmare had by a friend of Ari Folman, who wrote and directed the film. In war, they say, no one sees the big picture, the men at the top least of all. ![]()
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