Paging Dr. Rorschach?

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 2010)

Well, I haven't asked Mr. Spielberg what his intent was in Munich. When I've discussed it with friends, I feel like I'm on the outside of an in-joke--they all seem to believe that, like Catch-22, Munich was made to show that the Israeli response to the murders of their athletes was somehow wrong.
I didn't see it that way. When Golda says words to the effect that they will now send the world a message that it's not OK to go around murdering Jews any more, that summed up the essence of the issue for me: there is now negative feedback in the system. No more "Pull!" and murderers get to shoot Jewish skeet. Now the skeet shoots back. Accurately.
Then again, maybe I missed Mr. Spielberg's point. He hasn't enlightened me.