A Portrayal of Humanity Like Schindlers List

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2007)

MUNICH After two years I finally saw the movie tonight...and in a way I was awestruck.
Now most stupid people will watch this movie and say its the most biased movie they have ever watched, either biased against Jews and Israel or biased against Palestinians and Muslims....these people are just nincompoops (i.e. fools) This movie is a portrayal, a very beautiful and all at once ugly portrayal of human nature, very much like Steven Spielbergs other masterpiece "Schindlers List"....this movie encompasses a whole range of human emotion to an uncanny degree as reflected on the characters, it lends no preference over which "side" is better, its just an astonishing and shocking portrayal of humanity.
First of all the central theme is vengeance, but also mixed with that is rage and hate, self-preservation, nationalism, ethics, paranoia, and of course love of family and nation. One actually feels for the main character, Avner, (masterfully played by Eric Bana) in this movie, and the roller-coaster of emotions that he endures and the ensuing paranoia and guilt after has had helped commit his actions. One feels as if he is transformed with Avner from a good soldier who puts God and country before all else to a tormented human soul who seeks justification for his actions against fellow human beings amidst a paranoia which engulfs his reality and threatens the ones he loves the most, his family. In essence the movie questions if the ends justifies the means, and if violence, vengeance, and hatred really solve anything at all....which we all know it doe not.
This movie has tons of action as well, for all the action fans, and as a student of the 1972 Munich Kidnappings, it accurately portrays the events that transpired in September 1972, and the bloody secretive war that transfixes Israel and Palestine over the next couple of years, filled with terror.
Overall a masterpiece of a film, which of course inspires claims of Bias either for or against the Jews , questions of who is the most terrible nationality Palestinians or Jews?, in the end no one is right, if everyone is wrong, this film finally is a study of human nature for we are all susceptible to unrestrained hate and vengeance and we are also endowed with a conscience, an ethical means of doing things.
There are things greater, than Jew, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Shinto, things greater than the color of your skin, or who is your God, or what language you speak, that thing is humanity, which is a burden or a blessing, a curse or a cure....it is up for you to decide, and this film like Schindlers List masterfully paints a real portrayal of the strifes and range of humanity. of what it is to be human.....
I LOVE THIS FILM Supramaxx rating 10/10