Waltz with Bashir

We don't go places

where we really don't want to.

A human mechanism

prevents us from entering dark places.

Memory takes us

where we need to go.

See all that?

It's all mine.

All of it?

From those trees to the river.

It all belongs to you.

- Yes, and the house.

It's about 10 acres.

All that just from selling falafel?

- Just from falafel.

Wow!

- Come and see.

How much falafel did you sell?

- Three years was enough.

In the early '90s

I had a small stand in Utrecht.

Health food was in fashion.

The Middle East too...

Falafel is both healthy

and Middle Eastern.

Everyone thought you'd become

a nuclear physicist.

Who did?

I don't know, your family,

my family, our school friends.

They thought that by the age of 40

you'd be nominated for a Nobel prize.

By 20 that future was over.

Cold?

Cold? I'm freezing!

- Let's go inside.

We have to talk all that way?

It's funny you've showed up now.

Why.

- When you called...

I had just gone out with my son Thomas.

He's seven.

He was playing with a toy gun

and started asking questions.

"What did you do in the army?

Ever shoot anyone?"

Did you?

- I don't know.

Let's go inside and warm up.

Would you mind if I sketch

you and your son playing in the snow?

No.

Not at all. Draw as much as you like.

I'll fetch him.

It's fine as long as you draw,

but don't film.

As strange as it sounds,

we were transported to war

on a little "Love Boat"

leased by the army or God knows what.

They wanted to mislead the enemy

and launch a surprise attack.

What do you mean a "Love Boat"?

With jacuzzis and bars?

All of that?

- That's how I imagined it.

I later found out it was

just an old commando boat.

For 18 you seemed pretty bright to me.

I never took you for a fighter.

Frankly, it was important to me

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