Waltz With Bashir University of Guelph巴希尔圭尔夫大学.pptVIP

Waltz With Bashir History and Memory Like Persepolis, Waltz With Bashir aims to explore a national narrative However, Waltz With Bashir accomplishes this exploration through memory Ari’s personal memories are intertwined with a traumatic memory in Israeli history Ari’s quest to restore his memories coincides with the desire to restore relevancy to the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps Let’s consider the opening scene... Let’s consider the opening scene... Before a dog is shown, the first shot of the film cues us to the fact that something is not quite right with this scene The only colour in the scene is found in the yellow sky, creating a world that exists between full colour, and black and white. We are provided with a very tight, low-angle establishing shot, when the typical establishing shot would be wide, high-angle shot The camera pulls out, whereas in most establishing shots, the camera would push in Let’s consider the opening scene... The surreal nature of the opening shot is punctuated by the pack of dogs racing through the street We are meant to find this scene disturbing because it somehow defies our expectations of reality It is only when the scene ends that we realize we have witnessed a dream Dreams and Memory The first two scenes establish a link between dream and memory Boaz shot 26 dogs in Lebanon and it is the same 26 dogs that haunt him in his dreams Recall that Ori, the therapist, explains to Ari that dreams are directly related to memory Recall the other dreams These scenes are visually similar to the opening These dreams relate to a traumatic memory Carmi’s experience on the boat, Ari’s experience at the massacre This is one way in which the film explores the theme of mediation Mediated History Waltz With Bashir uses mediation in order to consider the slippery nature of memory and history As dreams bleed into memories, fiction bleeds into fact, and we are not sure where one ends and the other begins Mediated History and Memory The dr