He Waltz comic with Bashir it's a story created by Ari Forlman and David Polonsky and tell the tragedy of the war of Beirut of the year 1982. The comic is edited by Salamander in a softcover edition. In addition to the comic there is an animated film for the adult audience and not recommended for children because although the story is animated, in addition to being complicated, it is terribly illustrative of what a war is like and the tragedies that happen in it.
The story superbly illustrated, set and colored, although I have not seen the movie I think it is similar, it is very attractive and the scriptwriter Ari Folman leads us through real scenes mixed with elusive dreams from the imagination, probably trying to erase or hide the reality lived by Israeli troops in the Beirut war. Especially hypnotic is the scene that serves as the basis for building the film's title, it is about how soldier Frenkel, a brave Israeli soldier, fires completely hypnotized in the rain of the bullets of enemy snipers making a waltz of the most macabre .
Waltz with Bashir travels to the future to find the Israeli soldiers who participated in the war and present their situation twenty years later. The protagonist of the comic tries to explain that he wants to remember what happened while the rest of the old soldiers seem to have forgotten the war and have adapted to a normal life within the society in which they live.
Somehow Waltz with Bashir is part of the reality we live in which wars besides being tremendously media It encourages us to know what happens to soldiers before, during and after battles and clashes. The comic helps us understand that war is a savage but simultaneously indicates that it is possible to survive it which leaves you with a very unpleasant sensation in the body because it generates acceptance and rejection at the same time.
The film won many awards and nominations, won the Golden Globe to the Best Non-English Speaking Movie, the César Award to the Best Foreign Film or the prize of the General Society of Critics of the United States to the best movie. The cost of the film was two million dollars and raised eleven million dollars worldwide.
Apparently the movie, and I imagine the comic, is banned in several Arab countries, including Lebanon.
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