History Animation / WaltzWithBashir

* HellIsThatNoise: The ungodly wails of a crowd of Lebanese women coming across the aftermath of a massacre site. [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse Then it turns out that]] '''those aren't the screams of actors'''.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The ungodly wails of a crowd of Lebanese women coming across the aftermath of massacre. [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse Then it turns out that]] '''those aren't the screams of actors'''.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The ungodly wails of a crowd of Lebanese women coming across the aftermath of massacre. [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse Then it turns out that]] '''THOSE AREN'T ACTORS SCREAMING'''.]]

* UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash: The film's unique style owes itself to the fact that it was animated by combining adobe flash cutouts and traditional animation.

* {{Flashback}}s

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: President Bashir is referred to but doesn't actually appear in the movie.

* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler: Near the end of the movie, after the true intention of the Phalangists is discovered, we see how the news of the massacre wanders up the ranks of the IDF. When it finally hits an Israeli officer who cares and takes action, it's already morning. We then see a military jeep driving up to the Phalangists, a man gets out, picks up a bullhorn... and says in a deadpan voice: "Stop the shooting". The Phalangists stop, the surviving refugees return to their destroyed camp, and the man drives off again.]]

* BadassIsraeli: Deconstructed/subverted. Pretty much all of the soldiers shown are just scared kids who would rather be back home. Frenkel does have his moments, though.

* WorfEffect: On the IDF, constantly.

-->'''Folman:'''Whether an eternity or just a minute, there was Frenkel at the junction with bullets flying past him in every direction. Without crossing the junction, I saw him dancing, as if in a trance. He cursed the shooters, like he wanted to stay there forever. As if he wanted to show off his waltz amid the gunfire, with the posters of Bashir above his head."

''Waltz with Bashir'' (Hebrew: '''ואלס עם באשיר‎''' - ''Vals Im Bashir'') is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War and won numerous awards, including being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles: All the main characters. They are depicted generally as a bunch of kids who don't really know what they're doing or why they're doing it.

* BottomlessMagazines: Frenkel, the MAG shooter, doesn't seem to run out of ammunition wile dancing in the street and firing around.
* BugBuzz: During the dead horses scene.

* DayForNight: The nightly army maneuvers are depicted with more natural light than there should have been.

'''''Waltz with Bashir''''' (Hebrew: '''ואלס עם באשיר‎''' - ''Vals Im Bashir'') is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War and won numerous awards, including being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* SeparateSceneStorytelling: Events, that are being recalled by characters, are shown as animated sequences to avoid too much TalkingHeads.

* TalkingHeads: Largely avoided by replacing people's talk with animated sequences.

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* SurvivorsGuilt: Ronny Dayag, who is the only member of his tank crew to survive

* WarIsHell: The director stated that he intended to show that war is awful, and to not give the audience any heroic characters to emulate. Indeed, the stories people tell generally reflect poorly on the IDF in general and them in particular

!!'Thi film provides examples of:

* BottomlessMagazines: Frenkel, the MAG shooter, dancing on the street while firing doesn't seem to run out of ammunition.
* BugBuzz: During the dead horses scene.

* NationalStereotypes: In Netherland you smoke joints at any occation.

!!''Waltz with Bashir'' provides examples of:

* IntrepidReporter: Ron Ben-Yishai

* UnflinchingWalk: Ron Ben-Yishai

* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: Ronny Dayag [[spoiler: was abandoned by his unit on the battlefield. He hid until nightfall and then swam to safety.]]

* ApatheticCitizens: At one scene showing a battle between the Israelis and the militants, Lebanese civilians were watching the whole battle from their balconies as if they were just watching a drive-by movie, without caring if they might get shot.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The director presents his ex-girlfriend this way. She dumped him on the same week that he shipped out, and he has visions and dreams of her during his experience at war. The director's wife objected to how pretty she looks in the film.

* ADateWithRosiePalms : An officer gives Folman instructions while watching a German porn movie and engaging in this.