'Spies like us'
I went to a 'preview' showing of the film 'Munich last night. I say preview as it is already out in the US but opens in Britain on Friday 27th. I was quite impressed with the dramatisation of the events following the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics circa 1972. I haven't seen many films that display political climates and views as openly yet still remain entertaining as a film in it's own right. The suggestion of CIA 'playing' off intelligence agencies against each other to maintain their power rings true as does the suggestion PLO operatives were based in Europe with the full knowledge of governments 'to avoid atrocities' on their own soil isn't beyond the realms of imagination.
I think the realization that government's acting with a 'shoot to kill' policy make them no better than the terrorists is something Spielberg needs to be applauded for, not chastised as a sympathizer to terrorists, far from it.
The characters growing realization of this fact is what makes the film a must see despite the fallout in the Israeli/American media to this film. I think it will do incredibly well in Europe, not only because of present events with international terrorism but the European mindset being slightly different and the fact the film portrays various European cities in the early to mid seventies gloriously.
One thing that has made me laugh though is all these spying subterfuge things happening in the seventies showed how spying has radically changed with computers yet the British intelligence have just been caught using fake rocks in Moscow to transmit messages. Have things really changed that much or is it still like the seventies.......
I think the realization that government's acting with a 'shoot to kill' policy make them no better than the terrorists is something Spielberg needs to be applauded for, not chastised as a sympathizer to terrorists, far from it.
The characters growing realization of this fact is what makes the film a must see despite the fallout in the Israeli/American media to this film. I think it will do incredibly well in Europe, not only because of present events with international terrorism but the European mindset being slightly different and the fact the film portrays various European cities in the early to mid seventies gloriously.
One thing that has made me laugh though is all these spying subterfuge things happening in the seventies showed how spying has radically changed with computers yet the British intelligence have just been caught using fake rocks in Moscow to transmit messages. Have things really changed that much or is it still like the seventies.......
