I saw Munich for the second time over the weekend. This brilliant offering, from Steven Speilberg, is a very hard-hitting movie that pays tribute to the eleven Israeli athletes that were killed during the 1972 Olympics by the terrorist group, Black September, and also examines how the secret retaliatory killings of the suspected Black September heads was among other things, an exercise in futility.
I thought the movie was good enough to warrant watching a second time around, and I noticed a lot of interesting stuff about the movie. The very last shot of the movie, when the closing credits run, has a shot of the WTC twin towers, for chronological consistency.
A lot of songs were included in the soundtrack of the movie, and they were popular songs, but sung in different languages, most probably in the native language of the country that the sequence was taking place in (unconfirmed), like ‘black magic woman’, which was being played on a concert on the beach-side in Lebanese (mostly), as the Israeli commandos got ready for a strike in Beirut.
Level up movie, leaves one in a very contemplative mood in the end.
