Waltz With Bashir

Today in class we watched the movie "Waltz With Bashir." Overall I think the animation was done very well. As was discussed in class I would probably compare it with 1980s war movies like "Apocalypse Now," or "Full Metal Jacket." The only problem really was in certain parts of the movie he left the audience wondering exactly what was being represented. One scene in particular is the scene where him and the other boys are walking out of the water naked toward the buildings being bombed.
"Waltz With Bashir," compared to the other graphic novels we read in class like "Maus," was far more graphic and shocking. In "Maus" Speigelman uses mice and other animals to in a way mask some of the graphic nature of what really happened and made a novel that would appeal more to younger audiences. "Waltz With Bashir" had nudity, violence, and pornography in it which would not be something to expose children to and makes "Waltz With Bashir" a movie geared more to 18 years or older audiences. The movie also shows how traumatic experiences like the Lebanon War can affect a person physcologically. And how the mind can suppress certain events to the point that can't remember the events even if they want to recall them. It also shows how in war soldiers have the ability to cause great horrors on innocent lives ad not think twice about the orders they are given and will rationalize these orders by simply saying they were just following orders. So when the use of Nazi came up I think it was in correct context and used in a truthful sense.