Waltz with Bashir was the movie that blew me away. Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. The film was conceived as a journey in search of Folman's lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War. Folman designed the film as an anti-war message (source: Wikipedia). The movie is about the life of a young soldier Ari Folman of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces), who after participating in the Lebanese War in 1982 as a 19 year old is trying to recover the memories of what happened after 24 years and the effect that has had on him and on his colleagues from the war. The opening shot of the movie shows the dream of a soldier, where a bunch of 26 (yes exactly 26) dogs running around the town and waiting for the soldier to come down from his apartment so that they can kill him. The soldier meet his colleague (Ari Folman) in the bar that night to discuss his nightmares and tells him that,