We saw Good Night and Good Luck (2005) and Munich (2005). Both movies look at past events but their messages clearly apply to today’s situation: Both in the USA and in Israel. I liked both these movies and recommend them.
Good Night and Good Luck (2005)
UriAvnery says about Munich:
On leaving the cinema, my German host wanted to know what I thought of it. Spontaneously, without thinking, I said what I had felt throughout: “Disgusting!” [...] It withholds from the viewer some very relevant facts. For example: That the post-mortems showed that nine of the 11 Israeli athletes were killed by the bullets of the pathetically untrained German policemen. (The post-mortem reports are kept secret until this very day, both in Israel and Germany. But a powerful person like Spielberg should know about them.) ¹
ElectronicIntifada says about Munich:
Spielberg [...] humanizes Israeli terrorists in *Munich* but expectedly not the Palestinian terrorists who are portrayed as having no conscience. It seems that unlike their Israeli counterparts, Palestinians shoot but do not cry! ²
I don’t really share these harsh criticism. The Palestinians killed are often shown as humane and likeable characters, and the naïve Mossad agents slowly realizing their errors and breaking seemed to stand for the whole Western world realizing the crime they have been supportive of all these years. Sure, the movie could have shown more humane aspects of the Palestinian side, but I don’t think that was the point. I didn’t see it as “Israelis are nice guys and Palestinians are dehumanized” – I saw it as “Palestinians are ordinary people and the Israelis are slowly loosing their mind”.
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