sabbath bloody sabbath (cinematheque)

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2012)

Like the famous U2's song, in this movie "There's many lost, but tell me who has won? The trenches dug between our hearts. How long, how long must we sing this song ?" Indeed, since my birth, i hear always two things: we face a crisis definitely worse than 1929 and Israelis and Palestinian are fighting. So, that's 40 years at least without peace.
One reason that is explained in this movie is that both sides are stuck in their revenge attitude: thus killing make things worse because it exacerbates violence instead of stopping it. This message is all the more powerful here because it's official, state approved assassinations that are executed.
Sure, as the title is "Munich", we expect to see Spielberg's vision of the tragedy. So, I was surprised that Spielberg doesn't show it at first. We see bits all along the movie and we must await the end to see it completely. If the wait has push up the drama, those last moments are mixed with a love scene (maybe as a parallel for life/death) but the sex is too nightmarish.
Beyond politics and history, the story is also a existentialistic one when the puppet killers realize that family is as sacred as nation.
With such thematic, I think Spielberg has reunited a excellent international team for the cast. If I can't really enjoy the movie because it's about men dedicated to kill (and maybe a bit too long and repetitive), it made me at last ponder loudly.
Hopefully, it closes on an appropriate last shoot because as it happens also in NYC, i was also thinking that in regard to the subject, it would be unforgivable if the Twin Towers doesn't appear! Thanks to Spielberg, they are there, looming and dominating as a future warning!
Pairing: "Minority Report": citizens shouldn't trust blindly authority