This isn't Hotel Rwanda, or Shake Hands With the Devil, excellent films that deal with similar civilian atrocities. Memory loss as a phenomenon is interesting but I am not sure it is the best means to tie a story together especially when the character of the news reporter saw and remembered everything in such detail that the rest of the film ultimately feels like a long and very slow progress toward hearing his account of the Shatila and Sabra massacre. Unless you consider the trite Freudian dream analysis offered by the doctor as fresh and fascinating. I very clearly remember the events from the international outcry in the news of the day, so I don't quite buy memory loss except as a perhaps truthful account which has the unfortunate effect of being soft on Israel by claiming memory loss for its Israeli main character. It would have been more bold and more interesting to suggest that the main character just didn't give a damn at the time as seems to have been the case with Ariel Sharon. I do not equate the filmmaker with the main character but it is his creation of himself as a character. And saying "it's documentary" wouldn't prevent the filmmaker from making that choice: elsewhere in the film he notes that memory is a creation that bears some but not all resemblance to actual events and experience. I wanted to be blown away by the animation but thought is was pedestrian, certainly not inventive or new in any significant way. I wanted to be moved - as I am moved by my own memories of Shatila and Sabra - but I was not, so can't recommend this as essential viewing. It gets bumped up a point to 6 because it may be viewed by people who will be curious to learn about what happened.
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How can you rate the stupid "Transformers" 10 points and give a 6 to this movie...
Transformers is a 10/10 as a dumb comic book action comedy. Waltz With Bashir is ranked as a 6/10 on the list of serious political movies and art oriented animation I have seen.