Waltz With Bashir Prompt

In my opinion, one of the most memorable scenes of the movie is when the main character, Ari, talks to the female psychologist.  During their conversation, the psychiatrist mentions a patient that she had years back who also participated in the 1982 Lebanon war.  She describes this man as having said that he was able to fight during the war because he imagined that he viewed all of the carnage through a video camera.  Thus, he tried to convince himself that everything he experienced was made up.  One day, though, this man experienced horses dying. The man realizes that though he was immune to the image of people dying, he could not tolerate watching the defenseless horses die for no apparent reason.  At this point, this man's video camera stopped, and he became cognizant of the terror of war all around him.

This part of the movie stood out to me because it shows how soldiers are adversely affected by war. Though they try to pretend that everything around them is pretend at times, a traumatic event usually occurs which makes the soldiers comprehend the terrors of war.  I like this scene because it also reminds me of the book All Quiet on the Western Front, where the main character also describes that he could not stand the horses made when they died although he was immune to the sounds that humans made when they were killed.

The main goal of this movie was to illustrate the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon war.  Through the various soldier's stories, the audience could deduce how awful the war really was, and how it was very traumatic for some of the combatants. Though this film was animated, I still think it got the main message out.  The whole point was to listen to the soldiers stories and see a pictorial representation to understand what the war was like. Also, the real images of the dead bodies in the end was effective in portraying the main message of how bad the war really was.