So I recently rewatched a lot of old movies, spanning between ten and fifteen years. Some movies are the second time to watch, some are the Nth time to watch. The re-watching of "Munich Massacre" this time is actually the result of watching the sudden rise of the Olympic Games. It can be considered appropriate, although this scene should be a bit heavy.
In 1972, when the 20th Olympic Games were held in Munich, Germany, and the flowers were blooming happily, members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September stormed the Olympic Village, kidnapped 11 Israeli athletes, and demanded the release of Palestinian political prisoners. In the end, the terrorists and 11 athletes all died under the desperate rescue by the German police. This incident shocked the world at the time and was called the 'Munich Massacre' in history. To this day, the worst-ranked Olympics in history, the Munich Olympics are still number one. Afterwards, Israel carried out a nine-year revenge operation against Palestinian Muslim militant organizations and set up an assassination team (the predecessor of Mossad, who was later talked about in the eyes of the world), vowing to kill 11 militant organizations. Head, avenge the dead athlete. This is where the story unfolds.
In 2005, the film was made by Jewish director Steven Spielberg. Different from "Schindler's List", which has a clear intention and compassion, this film is like a window covered with a veil. You can see the shadows in the room, but you can't see it clearly. Only the flesh and blood splattered on these yarns hangs strikingly! In fact, at the end, I can feel Spielberg's despair and ambiguity. The hero in the film uses the kind of clumsy assassination, assassinating the seemingly harmless old people, professors, women and even children. But even if it is revenge, is it necessarily justice?
I watched a video on the Internet not long ago. The University of California in the United States invited several elders from Judaism and several imams from Muslims, all of whom are highly respected and scholars. Then organize a forum to sit down and discuss the possibility of mutual friendship between two religions and two ethnic groups, trying to put aside the millennia-old disputes. Seated left and right in the audience were young Muslim students and young Jewish students. The scholars on the stage spoke very well, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. They told the history as objectively as possible and made various suggestions, but when the students spoke, everything changed. A Jewish girl stood up first and said coldly: They all be damned. Then the Muslims were not surprised, stood up and fought back, and then they talked more and more fiercely until they were hoarse, and both sides finally moved their hands. At this time, the camera was shown to the scholars sitting on the stage, all with a look of despair and helplessness. But no one stood up to stop it, they just watched.
Because this has happened for thousands of years. until the swords face each other.
Human beings are indeed a strange race. While looking forward to peace, they fight each other and kill each other while saying kindness. I don't want to judge the issue of two ethnic groups and two religions. I just saw the blood splattered on the five rings of sports, which are the most respected and self-proclaimed by human beings!
I remember Kafka saying this: Homeland means nothing to a person who has a family, however, homeland is a kind of almost crazy spiritual cohesion for the displaced or invaded ethnic groups. So, whose motherland is the motherland, and for whom are the people fighting? ! This sentence seems fair, but the intention is particularly vague, because both sides of the slaughter have suffered the same hardship! Not to mention the suffering of the Jews in Europe for thousands of years, the bitterness of being massacred by the Nazis, and the difficulty of finally establishing a state. But even those Muslims in Palestine are suffering in this land, it is also suffering! Who is responsible for this? God? Or is it all a dead end set by God? I personally think that nothing is more precious than life! God should also respect life. Although these lives were created by Him.
Eleven years ago, I was a little drowsy when I first watched this movie. I also wrote about the aftermath of the movie, from the director to the actors to the plot. Looking at it now, combined with the rough history of these years and what happened, the more I look at it, the more horrifying it is. Spielberg is Jewish, so he tries to be neutral in perspective and position, but there's simply no way to do that. So the film's suspense, horror and gore reached an unprecedented level. And it's all just to blur positions, which Spielberg almost did. Fortunately, the film was only nominated for an Oscar.
"Old Testament. Deuteronomy" 19:21 says "Thou shalt not spare an eye, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." This is the law, and the killing continues, To this day there is no hope of stopping.
The last shot of this film is the New York Twin Towers, which have not collapsed yet, standing there, ambiguous and desperate.
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