Besides dominating most critics' top ten lists for the past year, both "Waltz with Bashir" and "Slumdog Millionaire" have another ominous commonality. Just as "Slumdog"s popularity was eerily prescient of the global attention that shifted to Mumbai in December, so does "Waltz with Bashir" place a militant Israel in the minds of viewers who will undoubtedly walk out of the theaters only to be assaulted with a barrage of headlines documenting the current violence in Gaza.
Director Ari Folman wasn't worried...
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