Three-time Academy Award(R)-winning director-producer Steven Spielberg has commenced production on "Munich" set in the aftermath of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Universal Pictures will release the film in the United States and Canada on December 23, 2005; DreamWorks Pictures will handle international marketing and distribution.
The film recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. Eric Bana ("Troy") stars as the Mossad agent charged with leading the band of specialists brought together for this operation.
I receive emails from Israel regarding certain things and one I received was a bad review of the movie. For the fact that they thought the movie was anti-Israel.
Then last Sunday at my old church I told a good friend I decided not to see it based on that email.
She told me something very interesting.
She said Spielberg in Schindler's list explored the idea of revenge...is it good is it bad?
And she felt he was furthering this exploration into the aspect of revenge in this movie and wanted to see what conclusions he has drawn...
So, yes I will see it today. Thanks for reminding me. I get so caught up in other things I forget my plans for the day.
I have to say, and this is no bland statement for I have seen many many spectacular movies....
This was the absolute best movie I have ever seen!
I don't even know where to begin!
It put humanity back into warfare/assasination/murder/fighting.
This is something I believe the world needs right now. We have been indoctrinated to believe that our enemies have no face have no humanity. That is the only way we can perpetrate such acts of crime/vengeance/revenge.
But we've been warned by Jesus that fightings and rumours of fightings will happen in the end times.
But still...are we to succomb to this hardness? To believe that there are victors and spoilers?
What are we to do when we are being attacked?
How long must the bloodshed go on to get our point of revenge across? Forever?
Or perhaps until divine intervention comes in...we will see an escalation of such violence toward humanity toward one another.
For this genre of movie, which for some strange reason is my favorite genre of movie, this movie is the most realistic I have ever seen.
It stuns me how different the perspective on this movie differs from the traditional assasination/operative/espionage intrigue movie.
It actually showed the emotions that go behind such a person. And I can say that the lead character in this played by Eric Benet had one thing going for him that most American operatives do not have. A loving and caring Family And this puts an entire perspective completely different from other such movies. But again, Jews are known for stressing family...that's a known thing. Of course, there are exceptions.
But his love for his family far exceeds his love for his country and his \"job.\"
And the character of the Frenchman who profited immensely from such information and knowledge necessary for such a job...well,
let me say that he typifies the old Illuminati type of 'family.'
To say the least, this personification was extremely accurate and extremely disturbing....
A man who from the outside looks like a wonderful generous man...and for one half of his life he is...but the other half is purely deceptive and diabolical.
I cannot imagine a better movie than Munich...especially for these times.
Saw this movie again today....it was even better the second time.
Fuscia, it's February. Have you seen it yet?
*Spoiler Warning*
Some of the details...like after they kill the Dutch girl operative and one of the Mossad says "I wish I would have let you cover the girl." (After they'd shot her dead, and she was splaid naked. He pushed the team leaders hand away from her robe and said, "no leave her like that.")
And another Mossad says in response to the comment above later, "You weren't yourself when you did that."
You can't be yourself and do those things.
Eric Bana, the team lead, and his nightmares....
And he is able to process the memories while being intimate with his wife...and her understanding everything without him even having to explain....that was cool.
Eric Bana had a really messed up childhood. Abandoned by his mother and placed in a Kibbutz when his father went to prison....And yet his father was considered a hero by the Israeli military and Golda Meir.
And Bana's character said something that was interesting and I cannot remember the exact words... something like "That's why I do this job. That's why I can do this job." (referring to his messed up childhood)
Lots of references to not knowing his identity...the operatives knowing their identities are unknown to them and a very tricky thing in the world of intelligence.
And, of course, the final shot of the twin towers at the end.
Based on the book Vengeance : The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by Geoge Jonas
12-10-2005 09:26 PM
