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ETWolverine |
12/22/05 |
I'm hearing a lot about the new Spielberg movie Munich. Some are saying it is a fabulous movie with great and complex characters that doubt themselves and their mission.
Others are saying that in reality the Israeli assasins never had any such ambiguous feelings, and that Speilberg is merely putting his own political views about the Israeli Palestinian conflict into the film. As such, they argue that the film portrays Israel as the bad-guy for going after the Munich terrorists when even their own people felt that it was wrong, and when it led to an escalation of the violence. This point of view would say that the film is anti-Israel.
Yet a third group argues that the film is awful because it portrays Arab characters as one-dimentional, whereas the Israeli characters are fleshed out. As such, it is biased in favor of Israel and against the Arabs.
What have you heard about the film? Do you have an oppinion? If not an opinion of the movie itself, do you have an opinion about the buzz the movie is generating?
I'm not quite sure which way to lean on this one yet. Jury is still out for me. I will say that I know one of the people that Spielberg consulted with regarding the film, a former Israeli CT expert named Jubal Aviv who was a member of one of the assasination teams. He now runs a global security firm called Interfor, based in New York. I believe that he gave Spielberg the information as it happened. The question is whether Speilberg is portraying what Aviv told him as he told it to him, or whether he decided to imbellish it with his own political statement. I don't know yet.
Elliot |
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