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This 3 page paper answers questions about Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich,” about the 1972 murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinians at the Olympic Games. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Black September is the name of the Palestinian terrorist group that murdered the Israelis (Schickel, 2005). The film is about the group, but even more than that, its about Israels
reaction to the crime. Black September is the impetus for the film, but the real story is the way the Israelis reacted, by going after and murdering as many Palestinians
as they could (Schickel, 2005). The Israeli reaction, Schickel says, is why the movie works so well-its not about Munich, but "about the aftermath, in which the Israeli government, with
Prime Minister Golda Meirs full endorsement, mounted a secret war of revenge against the murderers. In one of the movies most crucial lines, she says, Every civilization finds it necessary
to negotiate compromises with its own values" (Schickel, 2005). The willingness to compromise ones own values is shown most clearly in the depiction of the increasingly troubled mind of
Avner Kauffman, leader of the Israeli hit squad on which the movie concentrates (there were several)" (Schickel, 2005). Concentrating on what such single-minded revenge does to the people who are
invested in carrying it out gives the film "real, often poignant, distinction" (Schickel, 20005). Spielberg says, "You are assigned a mission, and you do it because you believe in the
mission, but there is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating" (Schickel, 2005). It would be easier if the Palestinians were in fact the monsters the Israelis
make them out to be, but theyre not: "many of them [are] reasonable and civilized too" (Schickel, 2005). Killing these people, Spielberg says, is "bound to try a mans soul,
so it was very important to me to show Avner struggling to keep his soul intact" (Schickel, 2005). "Avner" is not the real name of the head of the hit
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