skippy the bush kangaroo

Monday, January 02, 2006

close encounters of the palestinian kind

tbogg muses on munich, which which we had the good fortune to see before most of the world did.

it's a difficult film to sit through, not only because the violence is handled in a realistic (read: graphic, because after all, that's what true violence is) way; but also because the moral questions spielberg raises are not easily answered. we guarantee that what ever you bring to the movie will be challenged, and you will be changed, if even only a little bit.

tbogg links to alicublog, who chides those that deride spielberg for not coming down firmly on the side of neo-cons that need to destroy the islamic menace. believe or not, there are those who think that not condemning the plo gunmen while simultaneously praising israeli gunmen is inhuman.

spielberg doesn't make easy conclusions in his film; every single person is a human being, all caught up in events larger than themselves. everyone is full of doubt, rage, fear and hope; and there are those who can't stand the idea that muslims might fall into that same category.

we wonder why these same people insist that spielberg is equating those who would kill innocent bystanders with those who would kill those who might possibly have been somehow involved with the planning of the killing of innocent bystanders (if the information the government got but refused to show them was correct in the first place, we guess).

posted by skippy at 4:24 PM |