Comments on: Shooting and Remembering: Some thoughts on Waltz with Bashir

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:13:50 +0000

Miriam – I’m not sure anyone made that comparison.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:59:51 +0000

To Mark and Alex–The insidious comparison between Nazi atrocities and the actions of the Israeli army, however over-exaggerated and disturbing–is not a false dichotomy but a false analogy–in terms of logic, analogy is never acceptable as an argument anyhow.

Cheers,
Miriam

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:18:27 +0000

1) it is true that I was trying to take control of my biological clock, so I hadn’t slept for 28 hours before staggering into a showing of Bashir at Dizengoff Center, trying to stay awake longer

2) however the movie actually put me to sleep. even if I blame myself, I blame the movie more. how many minutes can you watch dark cartoons with droopy music? not that i do not respect Sabra and Shatila — respect.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:04:06 +0000

I will see it when I get the chance.

But Schindler’s List was about the Good German, complete with the requisite Hollywood happy ending. More than anything it was a premature act of forgiving. Not premature because of Germans, but because of Hollywood. Spielberg said he wanted a protagonist the audience could identify with, which says a lot.

By: Marc Grajower

Marc Grajower — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:53:41 +0000

Hi Alex,

I take it that this phrase in your concluding paragraph is in the “track the false dichotomy” contest?

“Sitting in the cinema in silence, I felt I had a small sense of what it must have been like to be a German watching Schindler’s List in Berlin.”

Take care and kind regards,

Marc