| Spielberg's "Munich"
Schoenfeld, Gabriel
Commentary, Feb.06, v.121, #2, pp34-42
"Thirty-three years after the event, we now have a film by a great
director memorializing the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes by
Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olyrnpics in Munich, Germany.
But, although much hyped in advance, it has not exactly been a blockbuster
at the box office, and it has also engendered considerable controversy...
For his own part, Spielberg has said that he made "Munich"
out of a simple desire to commemorate the slaughtered Jews of Munich.
He also believes that the film is relevant to our own troubled times,
and specifically to the current war against terror. As a comment
on two adversaries trapped in a "quagmire," and as an implicit "prayer
for peace," "Munich" tells us "something important
about the tragic standoff we find ourselves in today." Gabriel
Schoenfeld is the senior editor of Commentary.
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