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Twitch - At first glance the idea of an animated documentary seems odd, maybe even counter-productive. After all, isn’t the point of a documentary to get as close to its subject as possible with as little interference from the film maker as possible? And doesn’t animation by its very nature require constant interpretation and reshaping by the director? But mere moments into Waltz With Bashir the decision to make the film an animated feature not only makes sense, it is arguably the only real option to make the film at all.
Much as Art Spiegelman’s Maus - one of the greatest graphic novels ever written - dramatically re-cast the holocaust memoir by drawing his own family history as a literal game of cat and mouse, Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir is a total re-envisioning of what the war documentary can be. Like Spiegelman, Folman is not so much concerned with the history of the events he is documenting - though neither project is light on history by any means - as he is with the effects on those involved, the prime person involved being Folman himself… [Full Story]
