September 5 – 7

Oh, for those simpler times, when we could think terrorists were Bad and Israelis were Good. It’s hard to watch this movie about the Munich Olympics without the overlay of Israel’s current genocide of Palestinians and realizing that no progress has been made in this conflict over the last 50 years. As a study of journalistic enterprise and ethics, the film raises ever relevant questions: is the journalist’s duty to report or to help; when is it okay to defy the authorities; when does the urge to be first fudge normal cautions to get the story right? Watching this back-to-back with Saturday Night drove home the complexity of putting on a TV show, with the added factor that this story was real.