{"id":2944,"date":"2009-03-09T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:26:28","slug":"2009-3-9-shooting-film-and-crying-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Film and Crying"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve already written about my\u00a0reaction<\/a>\u00a0to the Israeli animated film “Waltz with Bashir.” If you’re interested in a more in-depth analysis, you can check out a longer piece<\/a> I have just published at MERIP. Here’s the opening paragraph:<\/p>\n

Waltz with Bashir<\/em>\u00a0(2008) opens with a strange and powerful image: a pack of ferocious dogs running headlong through the streets of Tel Aviv, overturning tables and terrifying pedestrians, converging beneath a building\u2019s window to growl at a man standing there. It turns out that this man, Boaz, is an old friend of Ari Folman, the film\u2019s director and protagonist. Like Folman, he was a teenager in the Israeli army during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. And the pack of menacing dogs is his recurring nightmare, a nightly vision he links to the many village guard dogs he shot — so they wouldn\u2019t raise the alarm — as his platoon made its way through southern Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pack of growling dogs — animal Furies — is a striking embodiment of the violence of repressed memories, the fear and anger involved in confronting a shameful past. The rest of the film tries to answer the question posed by this opening nightmare — what memories is this former soldier, and by extension Israeli society, pursued by? What is he guilty of?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve already written about my\u00a0reaction<\/a>\u00a0to the Israeli animated film “Waltz with Bashir.” If you’re interested in a more in-depth analysis, you can check out a longer piece<\/a> I have just published at MERIP. Here’s the opening paragraph:<\/p>\n

Waltz with Bashir<\/em>\u00a0(2008) opens with a strange and powerful image: a pack of ferocious dogs running headlong through the streets of Tel Aviv, overturning tables and terrifying pedestrians, converging beneath a building\u2019s window to growl at a man standing there. It turns out that this man, Boaz, is an old friend of Ari Folman, the film\u2019s director and protagonist. Like Folman, he was a teenager in the Israeli army during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. And the pack of menacing dogs is his recurring nightmare, a nightly vision he links to the many village guard dogs he shot — so they wouldn\u2019t raise the alarm — as his platoon made its way through southern Lebanon.<\/span>
\nThe pack of growling dogs — animal Furies — is a striking embodiment of the violence of repressed memories, the fear and anger involved in confronting a shameful past. The rest of the film tries to answer the question posed by this opening nightmare — what memories is this former soldier, and by extension Israeli society, pursued by? What is he guilty of?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}