Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html - 10 out of 10

 

Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html

10 out of 10

 

 

Since it is more than likely that this note will venture into the breaking news of the day, let me introduce a spoiler alert from the beginning, saying that if you looked for an opinion here, it is this – this film is stupendous, memorable and will give you an idea about what will happen next, only it will be on a much bigger scale, and you have yet more of my take at http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html and now let me continue

 

I was thinking of Munich as Hamas has attacked Israel yesterday (October 8, 2023) and they are surely fighting right now, Bibi aka Benjamin Netanyahu has said that they are ‘at war’ – we get an idea about Bibi as a young man by reading The Netanyahus http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-netanyahus-account-of-minor-and.html winner of last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, written by Joshua Cohen

This note moved into another day, so it is frightening to think where the casualty figures are now, last night, the number of dead in Israel has passed seven hundred (these are temporary figures, and they could also fall, Insha’Allah, this is what has happened after our own revolution, there will be boasting at the end of the pages, highlighting my contribution in it, and a link) with about two hundred and fifty bodies recovered from the music festival where the terrorists descended with their machine guns.

 

The connection with Munich is that there will be retaliation, indeed Bibi has promised there will be ‘vengeance like they have never seen before’, after the PLO had attacked the Israeli Olympic compound and killed all the hostages they took, a team was assembled and then they tracked and paid back, which will happen now, albeit the situation is complicated by the about one hundred people that Hamas took

We have had precedents here too, one is told in Seven Days in Entebbe http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/06/7-days-in-entebbe-screenplay-by-gregory.html which depicts the ordeal of passengers of an El Al flight, taken all the way from Europe to Entebbe in Uganda, then ruled by the gruesome Idi Amin…the Israelis sent a team of special forces to save their compatriots and they were successful

 

Bibi’s brother was killed in that operation, where there have been just a couple of casualties, including a woman that stood up, when they were told to sit on the floor, and the incredible results obtained by Israel’s special forces, defense, have been admired and envied, only the situation is much more complicated now

 

The retaliation seen in this fabulous movie – incidentally, a second take on this film is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html in other words, I have dissected Munich twice and you have the links, let me just dance through the Elysian Fields for this one – Munich, is sure to happen, only the release of the hostages will be almost impossible now, seeing that the Hamas jigodii ( local term which means something so abject you puke) know the story of Entebbe, and worse, they have the innocents that they caught within tunnels, in some impregnable places

What is alas hard to understand, is the failure of the security systems, first of all in telling the authorities that something of this scale is about to happen, then that it was apparently easy for the Hamas monsters to glide, jump through the fences and sail from the sea, however clear part of the explanation is, and it was offered by an expert which said something to the effect of ‘civil society has been in turmoil…

 

Bibi and his extreme right fanatics have tried to muzzle the Supreme Court – granted, it does look excessive, to have some judges say this is not reasonable and should not pass, something like that – to the effect that liberals, people that pay the taxes, make the economy tick, as opposed to the ultra-orthodox, who just rely on support from the state, do not join the army, but want some really dangerous things (which led in part to what we have seen these days) protested and called for reservists to refuse to serve for such a government

Then, when the settlers move into Gaza and other places, to build ever more, well, settlements, the army is going with them for protection, and instead of guarding those borders, they have to do something which is not right, hence, you ha them in other locations, instead of the proper ones, leaving the borders, part of them anyway, exposed to what we have seen…but there is more, and we will get information in the days ahead

 

By no means, this is not to justify the terrorists and blame the victims, that would be crazy and awful, disgusting actually, it is just to try and see a better solution, hopefully, after the revenge is taken, centrists will get to power and find a way to get peace, which will take more years, maybe decades, after all this massacre…let me now say that I am surely biased in favor of Israel, I have worked with clients from there, more than one thousand, and even learned some Hebrew, indeed, the background story is that the enemies of the Jewish state have been asking for its destruction, which is what Hamas wants, so when you face such foes, you need to be inflexible, tough with them, the old cliché of not going with a knife at a gun fight, if they want to throw you into the sea, you could not say oh, let us be gentle and kind, because it then leads to pogroms, and finally, the Jewish nation has had to see millions of their own getting gassed in the Holocaust, in World War II, so they have that memory to cope with, and now another pogrom

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”