Waltz With Bashir

Waltz with Bashir really fascinated me as an animation. It's really strange how he's chosen to cover such a sensitive topic via animation, I think this makes the visual language of it less realistic and therefore people are more likely to watch it because they can distance themselves from the topic at hand. I think this is a really common thing with modern documentary animations rather than the old ones. Like Sinking of the Lusitania, was done because there wasn't anyway to visually show it, they didn't have film footage of the event so animation could fill in the gaps and report the tragedy around the world in a visual way, one that was more recognised than

It was announced earlier this week that Ari Folman the director would be making an animation around the diary of Anne Frank. I think this will make him a lot of money, but I don't think it will be documentary after looking at the concept art, it's stated that it's more prominently going to focus on Anne's friend Kitty. I think that this will be a very sensitive subject and I don't think it's one I would want to take on personally, because I think people take this tale like it could of been any of their family members, because they hadn't actually done anything wrong. I therefore think their is going to be a lot of pressure on him to do this right. But I've read a lot of interviews by Martin Scorsese and every couple of films he makes he will make a documentary and something that's always stuck with me since reading, In Conversation with Scorsese is the amount of pressure he puts upon himself when covering a documentary especially when it's dealing with his idols (like the one he did on Bob Dylan, and it's rumoured he's making one on Mick Jagger next year) that he needs to do them justice to portray them in the best light. I feel like that with our a project a bit, how we have such a  sensitive subject that people ignore, but so many people are passionate about, I just really hope people can resonate with it and like it.