Bookworm listened to an NPR interview with Munich screenplay writer, Tony Kushner.
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Reading what he said, it's clear why the movie turned out the way it did. Kushner had a definite anti-military bias in writing the movie. He didn't care if there were historical inaccuracies in his portrayal of those who tracked down the Palestinian terrorists if such inaccuracies served the larger truth that he was sure that was there. It's the whole false but accurate approach to history again. As Bookworm writes,
<<< Kushner raises another relativistic point that is common on the Left, and that I think also demands some attention. He points to the fact that the movie's terrorists are "absolutely recognizable as human beings." In this regard, he thinks that "art makes an important contribution to the discussion."
Kushner's argument exemplifies something common on the Left -- the inability to call Evil by its name and to ignore the trappings in which an evil person may deck himself. While police profilers may need to know if a killer loves dogs or opera, since each bit of knowledge may increase the odds of capturing him, those loves don't make the killer any less evil. (If you're thinking of Hitler at this point, so am I.)
In the same vein, Kushner says that the Palestinian actors hired for the movie were afraid that the Palestinian killers would be presented as "terrorists without any souls." But isn't that what they were? They kidnapped innocent people, bound, and slaughtered them. That's a soul-less act. The fact that not all Palestinians are terrorists without souls doesn't acquit the killers of that charge. While it's hard to imagine a Hollywood movie that shows Nazis as fun-loving guys (the hilarious "Springtime for Hitler" scene in The Producers being the only exception), modern Hollywood just can't proceed without doing a psychiatric analysis of its politically correct killers, and then concluding that their vile acts are all because of psychic damage the received at the hands of . . . (fill in the blank here with white males, rich people, Israel, Jews, imperialism, oil companies, etc.). >>>
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