This is not shocking (nothing indicated that this movie was going to be a sop to the Israeli ultra-right.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/id/2133050/?nav=fo
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Armond White in this week's New York Press: "But that doesn’t mean Munich peddles lofty bromides. The sun doesn’t rise over a happily united Holy Land. Actually, Munich may be the most down-and-dirty espionage movie ever made—more moving and exacting than any film produced during the Cold War. Call Spielberg “The artist who came in from the cold,” bringing humane standards to a medium that regularly earns profit by the cool exploitation of man’s inhumanity to man. Scenes of killing, and the moments of cunning that lead up to death, are done here with absolute, graphic realism. (Nothing is cheaply ironic like blood splashing on a portrait of Jesus in Capote’s massacre scene.) Spielberg’s almost casual, reportorial observation of murder is intimate, shocking and reverberates long after the movie is over. Watching the savagery in the Israeli athlete’s dormitory feels so much like an existential trap that it has dull, dreadful terror. That refusal to “wow” proves Spielberg’s respect for history; it is shown through his exquisitely subtle technique that calls on our imagination and thus moves one to utter sorrow."
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There were a few good moments here and there--the confrontation in the safe house in Athens was pretty hot. Well, till they got to the bit with the radio. Spielberg always fucks it up, doesn't he? I liked all the actors, though.
I saw Pat O'Brien waiting for popcorn at the theatre.
― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
also two: whoever played his wife, fucking hot
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