Lashing Bashir
Haaretz.com's Gideon Levy has waffle-ironed Waltz With Bashir in an psychologically exacting, very well written piece that went up sometime late yesterday. He basically says that Ari Folman's film lies about Israel's heart of darkness, and particularly about its culpability in the wanton slaughter of Israel's enemies, past and present.
"Everyone now has his fingers crossed for Ari Folman and all the creative artists behind Waltz with Bashir to win the Oscar on Sunday," Levy begins. "A first Israeli Oscar? Why not?
"However, it must also be noted that the film is infuriating, disturbing, outrageous and deceptive. It deserves an Oscar for the illustrations and animation, but a badge of shame for its message.
"It was not by accident that when he won the Golden Globe, Folman didn't even mention the war in Gaza, which was raging as he accepted the prestigious award. The images coming out of Gaza that day looked remarkably like those in Folman's film. But he was silent. So before we sing Folman's praises, which will of course be praise for us all, we would do well to remember that this is not an antiwar film, nor even a critical work about Israel as militarist and occupier. It is an act of fraud and deceit, intended to allow us to pat ourselves on the back, to tell us and the world how lovely we are."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 21, 2009 at 8:17 AM
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btwnproductions
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It is an antiwar film, and all the stronger for not falling into clumsy didacticism and sloganeering. It did not leave me wanting to pat myself on the back, or feeling lovely about the world.
Posted by btwnproductions
at February 21, 2009 8:50 AM
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the400blows
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'"However, it must also be noted that the film is infuriating, disturbing, outrageous and deceptive. It deserves an Oscar for the illustrations and animation, but a badge of shame for its message.'
Maybe that's why Waltz With Bashir wasn't nominated for Best Documentary. I still think Best Foreign Language Film should go to Departures. Enough with these docu-dramas posing as narrative films, such as Waltz, The Class, etc.
Posted by the400blows
at February 21, 2009 11:23 AM
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Sabina E
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why couldn't it have been nominated for Best Animated Film? Last year, PERSEPOLIS should have been placed in that category, too, but was placed in Foreign Language Film instead.
it is difficult to take the Oscars seriously when BOLT and KUNG FU PANDA were nominated...
Posted by Sabina E
at February 21, 2009 11:37 AM
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D.Z.
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I'm guessing the reason Gaza wasn't mentioned is it's a totally different situation than Lebanon.
Posted by D.Z.
at February 21, 2009 3:23 PM
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Dignan
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Actually Persepolis was nominated in the animated category and not the foreign language one.
Posted by Dignan
at February 21, 2009 4:07 PM
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