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In Reply to: Munich. Wow, what a posted by tinear on December 23, 2005 at 18:39:31:
How did it compare to HBO's "Sword of Gideon"? I presume it probably makes Gideon look like a Looney Toon. Steven Bauer played the protaginist and IIRC Rod Stieger played his mentor. Bauer showed a sense of devotion to duty while grappling with his conscience.
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...this one contentious but very critical point is glossed over: Were the targeted victims truly the assassins alleged, or, more cynically, were some of them just on the General Hit List for Israel?clark
has one of the Israeli assassins, after killing about six (one loses count) Palestinians, ramble on about the morality of what he's doing and how it's so non-Jewish to be violently retributive. Wow. I guess he never read much of the OT.
His ramble, however, is a fraction of what another character has to say. This blue-eyed, blond assassin has innumerable speeches justifying exactly what they're doing. One cannot help but feel, given the numerous scenes in which he holds forth with his vengeful, Israel Forever speeches, and with his fate, that this is the character Spielberg most admires.
The film feels like a not-so-clever polemic.
Releasing it during the Holiday season especially is wrong-headed. It is also unfortunate that Spielberg timed it when Iraq is in such a critical phase: it's "message" will not be ignored by Arabs.
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