After waking up, there is deep fear, emptiness and confusion.
What happened in Lebanon in the summer of 1982?
The director of the film, the protagonist of the story, a veteran who participated in the Lebanon-Israel War, always dreamed at night that he woke up on an unnamed beach, accompanied by the continuous falling artillery fire around him and walked to the dilapidated and ravaged by the war. In the city, the magnificent buildings have become natural faults and folds on the surface after the war. In the dream, the protagonist shuttles between the ruins again and again, at a loss and at a loss.
Who am I, where did I come from and where am I going? These three questions Spinoza pondered all his life constantly haunt our protagonist in his dreams. Gradually, he discovers that in reality, he has long lost himself and lost all his thoughts about that summer more than 20 years ago. recall. With the exploration of these three questions, the protagonist began to ask questions. The psychiatrist, the former comrade-in-arms, and the veteran soldier who had never met before were all the objects of his questioning. During the continuous questioning, Lebanon in the summer of 1982 began to become clear and complete. Finally, there is the great movie "Waltz with Bashir"!
The film is based on 2D animation, reconciling the rough and textured image quality with the dim and dim tones, with Bach, Chopin, Rostropovich and 80s rock as the background music, coupled with psychoanalytic knowledge The insight of the film brought the artistry and authenticity of the film to a peak in the form of a documentary, which truly and shockingly restored the horrific massacre that took place in Lebanon in 1982.
The massacre was started by the assassination of Bashir, the leader of the pro-Israel faction, the democratically elected president of Lebanon. After Bashir's death, Israel and Bashir's loyal supporters, the Lebanese Falange Party, began a frantic revenge against the assassins. Infinitely magnified, thousands of unarmed refugees in the Beirut refugee camp became the target of venting their anger, and a total of thousands of civilians were slaughtered in three days.
This is the Beirut refugee camp massacre that shocked the world, and it is the lost memory that Foreman, the film's director, wanted to retrieve.
The whole process of the film is like completing a jigsaw puzzle. When the memories of the people at that time are presented one by one, the various stories about the massacre will be reproduced completely without reservation, whether as a documentary, a literary film or a film. The cartoons, "Waltzing with Bashir" are all perfect, but beyond the film, it is the introspective spirit of the Israelis and their reasons for recalling the disaster that is more moving.
As a nation that has suffered the deepest and longest-standing foreign persecution in human history, the Jews also brought a lot of suffering to the surrounding Arabs after the founding of the state in 1948. But the Jews always choose to face up to their cruelty and bloodshed, because they understand the depth of suffering. When it comes to dealing with suffering, only the victims can choose to forget, let go of hatred and pain, and go to meet the new life. Both the perpetrator and the bystanders must bear in mind, bear in mind all these sorrows, born of me, and remind themselves that they will never do it again.
But the fact is often the opposite. It is always the victims who remember the suffering. They gather and cry again and again, complaining about the cruelty of life's injustice, accumulating full of hatred in the complaints and finally dying in depression. The persecutors always selectively ignore and forget, until one day they feel that everything is a thing of the past, and their actions have long been diluted by the long river of history. At this point, director Foreman and the entire Jewish nation are worthy of praise.
More people choose to take a detour to decorate the light of life with oblivion. Compared with the Jews, our nation may have a long history and too many disasters, or it may be suppressed by various forces. We are always a group of people who are easy to forget. Thirty years have passed since the Cultural Revolution, yet we cannot see any repentance and recollection of the perpetrators; 64 It has only been 20 years since us, and most of us are completely unaware of its existence... Hegel said: "History gives Our only lesson is that history has not taught us any lessons." This sentence always seems particularly applicable to us Chinese.
At the end of the film, contrary to the tone of the whole story, a piece of real image data is used to show the crying, mad and desperate faces in front of us, until the end, the beating camera stops at a dead man. On the face of the little boy in the ruins, the small head, the curly hair, the outstretched arms, the flies constantly circling on his bruised face... The movie is frozen here, and this scene is also about twenty years The best accusation and deepest repentance of the previous massacre.
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