Waltz With Bashir - June 12, 2008

Waltz with Bashir is a movie that was recommened by Tony LeTigre, reader of Boi In Austin and contributer for "Just Out", a gay newspaper in Portland, OR. Tony has seen this movie, but I have not yet seen this and I will plan on seeing this probably soon. Just need to find a way to rent the movie, so I can see it, since Netflix does not have it in their queue. From the trailers and clips that I have seen though, this movie looks phenominal.

Here is a really good synopsis that I pulled from Blockbuster.com:

Director Ari Folman's animated, quasi-documentary Waltz With Bashir follows the filmmaker's emotional attempt to decipher the horrors that unfolded one night in September of 1982, when Christian militia members massacred more than 3,000 Palestinian refugees in the heart of Beirut as Israeli soldiers surrounded the area. Folman was one of those soldiers, but nearly 20 years after the fact, his memories of that night remain particularly hazy. After hearing an old friend recall a vivid nightmare in which he is pursued by 26 ferocious dogs, Folman and his friend conclude that the dream must somehow relate to that fateful mission during the first Lebanon War. When Folman realizes that his recollections regarding that period in his life seem to have somehow been wiped clean, he travels the world to interview old friends and fellow soldiers from the war. Later, as Folman's memory begins to emerge in a series of surreal images, he begins to uncover a truth about himself that will haunt him for the rest of his days. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

With myself knowing what war is like, and get the idea of how you tend to forget what you have seen and done, I would really like to see this, not for just the story of the war, but also for the memory block and how he overcomes it.

I would really like to check this movie out, if anyone knows of any ways that I can, please email me or comment here about it.