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Mother Superior and The Me watched Munich
last night because Greeper said it was riveting. Oh, and it was
free on cable. Greeper's assurances were necessary because of the
early hype. When Spielberg made the grandiose claim that his
treatment of violence in Munich would lead to peace in the Middle East, my nose twitched at the familiar odor of liberalusfartsmellum.
Such pomposity places him squarely into the circle of self important
(redundancy alert) liberal thinkers who, for instance, think they can
stop epochal climate change with a gasoline tax.
Maybe my favorite movie of all time is Day of the Jackal, so assassins paying painstaking attention to detail is one genre I'm inclined to like. Munich, which I assume most of you have seen, had that, but at 180 minutes was about 30-40 minutes too long. One plot line that could have been
edited out was the seemingly contrived CIA effort to thwart the
Israeli attempt on hard Salami, and I include the chick
scene [Marie-Josée Croze NSFW]. Yes, she was lovely, and yes she had wonderful, precious boobage, but give me
a break.
Spielberg's world shaking device for causing world peace to break out was hardly new. It can be seen in 1962's The Longest Day, where a Nazi officer's belt buckle, engraved with the legend "God Mit Uns," (God is with us) was
displayed in an intentionally ironic fashion after Allied troops voiced
the same belief. Here we see Palestinian and Israeli families
displaying grief at news that the Olympic athletes-
and their kidnappers - were all dead. As if there was moral
equivalency. Who gives a rat's ass what hatreds allowed those rag
pickers to feel justified in perpetrating that outrage? They
are/were mad dogs. Later we see the two factions placed together
in another utterly contrived scene. Spielberg seems to suggest
that if the Israelis had rolled over and let the Black September
swine bask in their victory, instead of being cut down like dogs
-- what? There would be no Hamas? No al-Qaeda?
No Jimmy Carter? Peace in our time?
Yes. That's his epiphany. Ich bin mit uns
Well la-di-da, who the hell doesn't want heaven on earth? In this
war on terror - that the entire world is engaged in like it or not -
both sides wear the God is with us buckle.
So what? If you're a Muslim, or are comfortable living under a
theocracy ruled by "the world is flat" pinheads, then you root for
Palestinians. If not, you cheer for the other guys, who by the
way include Americans. If you want to argue that there can be no
winner, okay, but there can sure as hell be a loser. Like other
Hollywood liberals, Spielberg is quite talented, but grown too filled
with the liberal disease to know reality when he comes across it.
That's what I think.
I give Munich 4 Boogers  |
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