In light of what is going on in Israel, I felt compelled to watch this movie again.
If you've never, or even if you have seen it, I highly recommend it. It's a very emotionally charged movie.
I'm not sure how accurate Mossad's response was depicted, but the massacre itself seemed to be spot on.
The thing that intrigued me the most was Salameh's supposed relationship with the CIA. If there's any truth to it, it's hard to believe.
Operation Wrath of God - ( New Window )
His best film IMO
Don't get Joey started
he told me his father got angry at Spielberg for trying to show the softer side of the agents when they were debating to kill them. As he put it "we don't feel sympathy for those who kill out brothers"
spoiler alert question: at the very end of the movie, why wouldn't jeremy rush's character go to the home of bana's character and break bread with him? is there a rule against eating with a killer? why was he disassociating with him after inviting him back to israel? i didn't quite catch that...
I personally found the film was a little too laced with Spielberg's limousine liberal politics, but the same could be said for much of the dreck that comes out of Hollywood...Munich was a very good movie
i'm pretty liberal and yet i find a way to enjoy mel gibson's movies because...and this may shock you...he makes really great fucking movies. he may have some views i don't agree with and may even be a fucking lunatic, but i'm not having him over for a BBQ, i'm just watching a movie that he made.
if you watch Munich and you're distracted by Spielberg's "limousine liberalism" then you're missing the entire point of going to the movies in the first place.
i'm pretty liberal and yet i find a way to enjoy mel gibson's movies because...and this may shock you...he makes really great fucking movies. he may have some views i don't agree with and may even be a fucking lunatic, but i'm not having him over for a BBQ, i'm just watching a movie that he made.
if you watch Munich and you're distracted by Spielberg's "limousine liberalism" then you're missing the entire point of going to the movies in the first place.
Your little rant is off base, and you completely misinterpret my point. I said I found there to be a bit of a political message in the movie that I didn't like, but said I still liked the movie a lot and found it very thought provoking. In other words, I had no trouble separating the politics and enjoying the movie.
Not sure how I felt about the end of it, where banging leads to 9/11 allusions.
OK my comment was a little obnoxious, guilty as charged...to clarify, as it bears on the OP's comment on how the theme of the movie lends itself to discussion of current state of affairs...I felt like the movie tried a little too hard to paint both sides, Israeli commandos and terrorists, as the same, guys fighting for a cause they believe in.
To me there's a big difference between soldiers or commandos carrying out orders to kill enemy soldiers, versus some guys intentionally killing innocent people to further their cause
The most interesting part of the movie IMO was how it showed the personal side effects the Israeli commandos suffered from, through the course of doing their duty
Culminating, of course, with the most uncomfortably weird sex scene in recent movie history.
At the end of the film there is a scene where the Mosad agent is near the World Trade Center and talking about a possible disaster. A subtle suggestion that the Israel was responsible for the bombing.
Munich is pure fiction and defames the innocent athletes that were murdered in 1972
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Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay. He is very anti Israel in his political outlook and it shows in his depiction of the moral equivalence of the PLO (terrorists) with the Mosad.
At the end of the film there is a scene where the Mosad agent is near the World Trade Center and talking about a possible disaster. A subtle suggestion that the Israel was responsible for the bombing.
Munich is pure fiction and defames the innocent athletes that were murdered in 1972
They had no existing counterterrorism agency. The post-WWII German constitution forbade military involvement in civilian affairs, so the Munich police were the only agency permitted to deal with the hostage crisis. They weren't trained for such an event, didn't have proper weapons or communication equipment and politicians were the ones making the tactical decisions.
As a result of Munich, the German counterrorism agency GSG 9 was founded and soon was one of the best in the world, famously raiding a hijacked Lufthansa plane in Somalia in 1977 and rescuing all the passengers.
At the end of the film there is a scene where the Mosad agent is near the World Trade Center and talking about a possible disaster. A subtle suggestion that the Israel was responsible for the bombing.
Munich is pure fiction and defames the innocent athletes that were murdered in 1972
ha, that scene IN NO WAY suggested that Israel was responsible for 9/11. that is absurd.
since when do posters put both their name and their IQ in their handle?
I suggest you read Stefan Kanfer's review in the City Journal Jan. 2006 issue. He also suggests that Kushner uses the back drop of the WTC for political purposes.
I also resent your snide remark about IQ.