A movie about the 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympians has a refreshingly simple — but not simplistic — take: Kidnapping and murdering civilians is bad, and there is no context in which to justify it…
This compact Paramount release, covering the 1972 Summer Olympics massacre of Israel i athletes in Munich, has a refreshingly simple -- but not simplistic -- take.It’s not cozy Christmas fare, but if you want to see a movie that gets the past half-century of Palestinian terror right, go to a movie theater and see “unfold through the eyes of journalists at ABC Sports — people who are competent at their job, covering the pre-attack Games, but who aren’t foreign-policy “experts.
When the terrorists reveal themselves as they peer out of the Israeli athletes’ apartment they’ve taken over, the American journalists reflexively see them as bad people. Disregarding an argument that the issue is too complex for a descriptive term, they call them what the Germans are calling them — terrorists.
The Munich Olympics were supposed to showcase a reformed, enlightened Germany, and the attack happened partly because West Germany so poorly secured the Games: Elected officials didn’t want visuals of armed German officers.This was a time before people had to go through body scanners to see a pop star perform, when athletes entering their housing complex could, and would, just hold the door open for strangers.
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