History Animation / WaltzWithBashir

The entire movie, including the in-person interviews, is fully animated - much of it in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. It was the first feature-length animated Israeli film.

** {{Deconstructed}}/{{subverted}}. Pretty much all of the soldiers shown are just scared kids who would rather be back home. Frenkel does have his moments, though.

The entire movie, including the in-person interviews, is fully animated - much of it in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. It was the first feature-length animated Israeli film. It was nominated for the "Best Foreign Film" Academy Award (Changed to "Best International Feature Film" after 2020), and is the first animated film to ever be nominated in that category. It was listed by multiple film critics among the top 10 best films of 2008.

The entire movie, including the in-person interviews, is fully animated - much of it in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. It was the first feature-length animated Israeli film. It was nominated for the "Best Foreign Film" Academy Award (Changed to Best International Feature Film after 2020), and is the first animated film to ever be nominated in that category. It was listed by multiple film critics among the top 10 best films of 2008.

The entire movie, including the in-person interviews, is fully animated - much of it in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. It was the first feature-length animated Israeli film. It was nominated for the "Best Foreign Film" Academy Award, and is thus-far the only animated film to ever be nominated in that category. It was listed by multiple film critics among the top 10 best films of 2008.

The entire movie, including the in-person interviews, is fully animated - much of it in Adobe Flash. It was the first feature-length animated Israeli film. It was nominated for the "Best Foreign Film" Academy Award, and is thus-far the only animated film to ever be nominated in that category. It was listed by multiple film critics among the top 10 best films of 2008.

* FliesEqualsEvil: The sound of fies during the dead horses scene.

* ShellShockedVeteran: The Israeli soldiers.

In 2006, more than 20 years after the war, Ari meets up for drinks with his old friend Boaz. Boaz reveals that he's been having recurring nightmares about the dogs he had killed during the war as a marksman. Ari realizes that he can't remember any of his own experiences during the war. That night Ari experiences his first flashback - [[OrWasItADream a bizarre scene]] of himself emerging out of the sea at night, naked, to see stars falling out of the sky over Beirut. This begins his journey to rediscover his own past by seeking out the men who were with him in the memory, and deciphering the meaning of the memory itself - a memory of the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacres near the very end of the war.

-->'''Folman:''' I don't know if it lasted an eternity or a minute, but I watched Frenkel in that intersection with a hail of bullets whistling past him from every direction; and instead of running to the other side of the junction, he suddenly started dancing. He was in a real trance. He was showing them that he had no intention to leave that intersection, that he wants to stay there forever. He wants to dance a waltz between their bullets, surrounded by giant posters of Bashir."

-->'''Folman:''' Whether an eternity or just a minute, there was Frenkel at the junction with bullets flying past him in every direction. Without crossing the junction, I saw him dancing, as if in a trance. He cursed the shooters, like he wanted to stay there forever. As if he wanted to show off his waltz amid the gunfire, with the posters of Bashir above his head."

* NationalStereotypes: In the Netherlands you smoke joints at any occasion.
** This is probably more of a national stereotype about Israelis going to (or ''moving'' to) the Netherlands just to get legally high.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: An officer gives Folman instructions while watching a German porn movie and engaging in this.

* EpiphanyTherapy: {{Averted}}, as the entire film is about unlocking a repressed memory through conversations and self-exploration, ultimately leading Ari to remember that [[spoiler: he was present in Beirut during the Sabra and Shatila massacres, and perhaps indirectly assisted them]]. No actual psychological therapy is shown to have occurred, however.

''Waltz with Bashir'' (Hebrew: '''ואלס עם באשיר‎''' - ''Vals Im Bashir'') is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles Folman]] in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: President Bashir is referred to but doesn't actually appear in the movie except on posters.

* BugBuzz: During the dead horses scene.

* ATeamFiring: The IDF soldiers that invade Lebanon fire at everything. Not everything that moves. ''Everything''.

* ChildSoldiers: Frenkel tells the director how he and his troop were attacked by a child with an RPG in an orchard and had to shoot him.

* MediumBlending: The final scene is real footage of the aftermath.

* TheWorfEffect: On the IDF, constantly.

''Waltz with Bashir'' (Hebrew: '''ואלס עם באשיר‎''' - ''Vals Im Bashir'') is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles Folman]] in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War and won numerous awards, including being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* BlackComedy: Folman and Boaz remarking that car bombs are "a blast."
%%** Occasionally. The red car montage sticks out as one example.

* ArtShift: The film abruptly changes to live-action news footage at the end of the film when [[spoiler: Folman comes face to face with his memories of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre. This is a CallBack to earlier in the film when Folman is interviewing the psychologist: Like the soldier that viewed the war as if "through a camera", the film's animated style can be interpreted as representing Folman's dissociation from the events of the war. When he is confronted with the grieving relatives of the massacre's victims, Folman can no longer diminish the reality of the atrocity he is witnessing.]]

* BadassIsraeli: {{Deconstructed}}/{{subverted}}. Pretty much all of the soldiers shown are just scared kids who would rather be back home. Frenkel does have his moments, though.

* BlackComedy: Occasionally. The red car montage sticks out as one example.
** Also, Folman and Boaz remarking that car bombs are "a blast."
* BottomlessMagazines: Frenkel, the MAG shooter, doesn't seem to run out of ammunition wile dancing in the street and firing around.

* SoundtrackDissonance: In a few scenes, the film uses classical music and rocking 80's singles over scenes of war.
** Some of those songs seem to be written specifically about the Lebanon War, however.

* BadDreams: The film starts with Boaz, Ari Folman's long time friend, recounting a recurring dream in which he is menaced by the dogs he shot during the war.

** [[IntrepitReporter Journalist]] Ron Ben-Yishai is portrayed this way, as he [[UnflinchingWalk walks calmly and upright]] through an intense firefight between the IDF and Palestinian snipers, while his cameraman crawls along next to him on his hands and knees. Ben-Yishai covered several wars in person throughout his career, including traveling to Damascus, Syria - an enemy country!

** Journalist Ron Ben-Yishai is portrayed this way, as he walks calmly and upright through an intense firefight between the IDF and Palestinian snipers, while his cameraman crawls along next to him on his hands and knees. Ben-Yishai covered several wars in person throughout his career, including traveling to Damascus, Syria - an enemy country!