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2008 |
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CARTOON
WAR
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Israel |
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| Colour: |
C |
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90 |
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The most original film of the week is this weird little animated documentary.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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The soundtrack consists of various people remembering the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and two massacres within Palestinian refugee camps by pro-Israeli Christian militiamen, shortly after the assassination of Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel. The visuals offer absurdist, comic-strip illustrations which point up – don’t hold the front page - the horror and futility of war.
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman himself served as a soldier, and the film is concerned with the way the human brain remembers what it chooses to recall, and not necessarily everything that really happened.
There’s never been a more graphic display of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the effect of the film is uniquely hallucinatory and disturbing.
The picture comes across more as therapy for Folman and his military ex-colleagues, than as entertainment for the viewing masses. But it’s undeniably distinctive, and anyone interested in the unconventional end of animation should take a look.
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