Jews are known for many qualities, good or bad: greedy, treacherous, miserly, just to name a few. Interestingly Jews share a lot of similar values with Chinese. A Jewish friend of mine once joked that of all those who go to college, half are Asians (of course majority are Chinese) and another half Jews.
Munich however, adds one quality that Chinese may not share: vengeance. 1972’s Munich abounded athletes from all over the world to compete in the Olympic Games. Among them were the eleven unfortunate Israelis kidnapped and butchered by PLO.
The famous Mossad set to work, assigning assassins to hunt down the eleven murderers. One by one they picked off the targets. While they were targeting their victims (or were they really), they became the targets themselves by various organizations, KGB, CIA and PLO by all means. The group members were picked off one by one.
Based on a true story read like a novel (Amazon review), the movie focused more in depth on individual humans affected. Avner the leader of the group, moved to New York after the mission. He could not get rid of the feeling that he was followed or watched. The fear inside him mounted deeper and deeper. He could not sleep at night. Even when he was making love with his wife his mind was so far away at the airport where all the hostages were slaughtered (another event where PLO kidnapped travelers at the Tel Aviv airport and killed all the hostages).
Another team member Hans amassed all his dynamite and invented a powerful bomb to blast himself away (what a shortcut to heaven). Poor guy, he felt what he was doing contradicted with what he believed in. May he find peace.
Such is the revenge. The aftermath of the sweet sensation is, you can’t trust anything. Avner cut down his mattress, broke his television set and his telephone to check for bombs where they’d placed to kill others. Eventually he slept in the closet (may he feel safer there).
Conflicts are throughout the movie like in the middle east for thousands of years.
PS: The world doesn't seem to be in peace any more than it was back then. With Hamaas rising to power in Palestine so heightens the terror that once dominated lives of Israelis and the world. Middle East, a land full of sorrow.
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