Spielberg's Munich

Sarita and I watched Steven Spielberg's recent film Munich, commenting the touchy ever-continuing Israel-Palestinian conflict. The story builds on a couple of historical facts - the event in the olympic games in 1972 that resulted in death of 11 isreali sportsmen, and the following deaths of the 11 suspected terrorists, and it fills in the blanks between these events, following a Mossad's (isreal's CIA, sort of) agent team head out to assassinate the suspects.

The movie on its own, if there'd be no real life conflict in the near east, would not be really interesting - more like a short film series "10ways to assassinate a terrorist, and how it feels like" but I bet it would not be directed by Spielberg then either. But now, especially with the introduction by Spielberg (that at least on our dvd was enforced to be viewed first) the movie is a tought provoking commentary on the current politics and their probable outcome - not too hopeful, but realistic though.

It's worthwhile seeing, and especially interesting right now, as the discussion on the Isreal-Palestinian relationship seems to waving high in european politics as well.