munich
07 Jan 2006We saw Munich this evening. I found it to be pretty tedious. The over-arching point of the movie seems to be: the Israel/Palestine conflict is fucked up (subpoint: violence sucks). I guess maybe if you are a person whose moral framework is still unclear on those points, 3 hours of people being shot and blown up will really shake your worldview, but frankly I found it to be a little boring.
Here is some interesting commentary about the movie (click).
What is particularly interesting is the sympathetic reaction of the Berkeley crowd.
Intellectuals can be just as uncritical as groupies.
(In fact, intellectuals often are very similar to groupies.)