Sunday, September 17, 2006
I saw Munich
And I liked it. Before watching the movie, I had reservations about it. LIke I said, I could not read more than 100 pages of O Jerusalem because I was biased against it. This time I was determined that Ill sit through the full movie whatever be the case. And I liked it. I felt it had a balanced view. When one looks at the issue from either side, one feels both the parties are justified. The jews had to have a home right! And the palestinians have been robbed of their home too! There is a scene where a palestinian fidayeen says to the israeli assasin "my father did not gas your father". So true!! They are paying for someone else' crimes. The movie was from Israel's point of view but it still had glimpses of the other party's stand. Showed the human side of the "terrorists" too. Its a Steven Spielberg movie and Im told he is a Jew. Im impressed :-)
6 comments:
Hey, didn't I mail you that it's a good movie?! (I mailed someone when i saw that movie, may be sanoop).
What I like about it the most is, it makes you think about the question : What's the end to all this?! As seen in the movie, when you kill a terrorist, many other terrorists become active and attack back -- so at the end it's
a homicidal cycle! Clearly killing is not the final solution!
In the last seen (the one that is shot at Manhattan), Avnar throws a number of questions to his Mosad boss, right? That whole conversation, i think, is written to leave us pondering over this issue! Kudos to Spielberg!
I think both the parties should learn to be happy with whatever they have now. Existence of Israel is a fact. So the arabs should learn to recoganize them. Meanwhile Israel should learn to respect the muslim population in gaza and elsewhere. That's the only solution i guess. But I don't know how they are going to achieve this. For that first of all they need some sensible leaders (may be someone like Gandhiji !!) Religious leaders are not gonna take them anywhere!
cheers,
Ranjith
Yeah it was not me :-) must have been sanoop.
I guess Yasser Arafat was the solution. werent things looking up when he was around? He did go 4 negotiations and at the same time didnt give away everything. am i correct? but then he died.
U know what!! our "DTS" system was not working well that particular day.. I would give anything to hear the last scene dialogues again. google searched for them but dint find them either :-D I missed the reason why avner doesnt want to go back to Israel and the reason why efriam refuses to visit avner's home. I could follow the rest.
Im glad I dint skip this movie :-)
Next in queue in OAT are MI3 and History of Violence.I guess I can skip both :-D
Also: For palestinians, israelis would be the terrorists and vice versa. I feel terrorism is a relative word. And u are right.. that area definitely can do without ppl like ahmedinejad who only inflame the matter by issuing irresponsible statements
T stands for Tamanna wat does B stand for??
You should have seen Schlinder's list. He glorified a Nazi in that movie.
In all his movies, he tries to bring out that irrespective of ideologies, there's still 'some' element of humanism in all of us.
Ranjith said "I think both the parties should learn to be happy with whatever they have now. Existence of Israel is a fact. So the arabs should learn to recoganize them. Meanwhile Israel should learn to respect the muslim population in gaza and elsewhere. That's the only solution i guess. But I don't know how they are going to achieve this. For that first of all they need some sensible leaders (may be someone like Gandhiji !!) Religious leaders are not gonna take them anywhere!"
I disagree with you Ranjith. What palestinians are left is nothing. And you cannot expect them to be happy with that. I think real peace can only be achieved is Israel pulls back from ENTIRE OCCUPIED teritory (ENTIRE) and also return east Jersulem. And again none of the peace treaty did not work was not because of Palestinians it was more because of Israel (remember Yitazk Rabin ?) By the way I never get this ... when someone armed to teeth goes and blows a family in a beach or an 80 year old man (not to mention the Collateral damage), Jenin massacre (and countless others) Spielberg does not make a movie on that.
Personally I did like the movie and I am rather surprised that many people liked it and found it unbiased. It does'nt take a much to point out that there is a problem but I think I takes real effort to point out a solution (esp this one). I dont recall anywhere in the movie (or any other movies) an effort show the solution.
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