Favorite cartoons & cartoon talk

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So i watched this movie called Waltz with Bashir. The story is about the director of the film itself,  Ari Folman, who stars dreaming about the 1982 Lebanon War, in which he was involved, but he doesn't remenber how exactly he was involved. So Folman decides to visit his friends and previous comrades in the battlefield in order to recover his memories about the war. What i liked the most about this movie is that is a different take on the "documentary" genre. The movie doesn't only use animation for aesthetic purposes, but also to abstract itself. Yes, it's a documentary film (kinda), but it looks like a fictional film (in a good way) because it uses it's own resources: It's capable of recreate what has been lost and create new, surreal images in order to narrate from a more personal perspective a tragic event (in this case, the 1982 Lebanon War). Not sure if this makes any sense to you.

Even if you don’t like watching documentaries, it doens’t matter, Waltz with Bashir is capable of keeping you interested because of it’s particular view on a historic event. It doens’t shove up to your throat generic dates and descriptions, it doesn’t even look like they are talking about the history. It’s a personal experience, It's about various people telling their what have they go through during the war. The animation itself is top notch, too.

In the end, what i’m trying to tell ya is that Waltz with Bashir is an awesome movie and that you SHOULD watch it.

EDIT: Did I forgot to mention that the film has a very unique and memorable soundtrack? (composed Max Ritcher)