Waltz with Bashir - the greatest film of the decade?
i say yes... no film was as moving, haunting, inventive and groundbreaking... here it is:
http://nyccine.blogspot.com/2009/12/top-10-films-of-2000s.html
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I can start naming off hundreds of movies that were more moving, well done, better direction, better writers.
Don't get me wrong, this IS a good movie. But not a great movie. The Story telling is the best part, but you don't intimately connect with the Characters. Partly because the way the animation was done was purposely with metaphors and hyperbole. It makes it surreal so the real characters are kept at a distance from the viewer.
perhaps you dont connect with the characters because you can't relate to the ideas and emotions in the movie. franktly i can't think of another movie in which i've connected MORE intimately with the characters.
WALTZ is a movie for grown-ups and people who've lived through loss and war and who struggle with their identity. WALTZ is a movie for the 21st century when alot of filmmakers are still making 20th century movies.
it isn't an easy movie and that's what makes it ultimately so rewarding and moving.
in 30 years people will talk about WALTZ the same way we talk about HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR and DAYS OF HEAVEN.
It's no Schindler's List.
you're right it's no SCHINDLER'S LIST. it offers a far more complex, nuanced portrait of Jewish identity than SCHINDLER'S LIST.
SCHINDLER'S LIST is a fine, classically-told film but i find it difficult to completely relate to a Holocaust film in which a Jew isn't the protagonists and Spielberg's reliance on passive, Nazi-imagery of the Jews as sheep is messed-up.
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