Munich

           Steven Spielberg reaches into his Jewish heritage for another heart-rending tragedy of the people of Israel. Like Schindler’s List, Munich is a tale of death and rage, of tragedy, and hapless victims. It is also a look into the roots of modern terrorism, and the way the Israeli Mosad began it’s strike team tactics to assassinate it’s enemies.

            This movie is a great look into international politics and the circumstances surrounding and proceeding from the Munich Olympics massacre of 1972. Afterward, the Mossad began a tactical assassination squad to strike at the perpetrators of the crime in Munich. This movie is their story, and though, loosely based on true occurrences, the candor of the tale is what highly charged politics and espionage and assassination is all about.

            The tale follows one of the teams comprised of 5 jews, all with different skills and different reasons for their involvement. It shows how they are all destroyed or pay a heavy cost for their participation in the defense of Israel. The cost of patriotism and doing things in the means and fashions that the state of Israel has contrived is definitely sordid business and this is a great, and harsh look at the inside, and really captures the brutality of the Israeli existence.

            All in all, it is really touching and intense, and though you can feel what will happen, in the broader sense, it is very suspenseful and intense. 2, for sure.