Reflection: Waltz with Bashir (2008)

The scene from 28:00 to 29:00 starts with a line of tanks peacefully driving and the narrator saying, "When you are inside the tank you always feel completely safe. The tank is a gigantic enclosed vehicle, inside the tank it will protect it."  It follows with one tank crushing a bunch of parked cars and ends with the camera angle following the bullet that kills the commander.

This particular scene stood out to me because of how little narration was involved and how much detail there was with the art.  When the tank starts running over the cars and the narrator says his one line, the scene is in the perspective from inside the large tank.  The audience expects the tank to be indestructible and the people inside of it to be immortal.  The cheerful music makes the scene almost happy and somewhat humorous, so nobody expects anything to go wrong.  Then all of a sudden, you (the audience) are the bullet accelerating towards the tank.  This is where I think animation helps the film get its point across - that anything can happen in a war.  You know you're the bullet, you know someone's about to die, yet when it actually happens, you're surprised.

xkcd: War