{"id":106595,"date":"2025-03-15T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/steven-spielberg-films-democracy-at-the-risk-of-the-fight-against-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T18:31:36","slug":"steven-spielberg-films-democracy-at-the-risk-of-the-fight-against-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/steven-spielberg-films-democracy-at-the-risk-of-the-fight-against-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg films democracy at the risk of the fight against terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/11\/0\/0\/2550\/1700\/556\/0\/75\/0\/92b5a7f_sirius-fs-upload-1-3voolh7fwmv7-1741690617077-munich.jpg 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/11\/0\/0\/2550\/1700\/600\/0\/75\/0\/92b5a7f_sirius-fs-upload-1-3voolh7fwmv7-1741690617077-munich.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/11\/0\/0\/2550\/1700\/664\/0\/75\/0\/92b5a7f_sirius-fs-upload-1-3voolh7fwmv7-1741690617077-munich.jpg 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/11\/0\/0\/2550\/1700\/700\/0\/75\/0\/92b5a7f_sirius-fs-upload-1-3voolh7fwmv7-1741690617077-munich.jpg 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/11\/0\/0\/2550\/1700\/800\/0\/75\/0\/92b5a7f_sirius-fs-upload-1-3voolh7fwmv7-1741690617077-munich.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Avner (Eric Bana) et Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), dans \u00ab\u00a0Munich\u00a0\u00bb (2005), de Steven Spielberg.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/11\/0\/0\/2550\/1700\/664\/0\/75\/0\/92b5a7f_sirius-fs-upload-1-3voolh7fwmv7-1741690617077-munich.jpg\" alt=\"Avner (Eric Bana) and Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), in \"Munich\" (2005), by Steven Spielberg.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Avner (Eric Bana) and Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), in &#8220;Munich&#8221; (2005), by Steven Spielberg.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">DreamWorks<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"article__catchphrase\">\n<p class=\"article__quote\">OCS &#8211; Saturday March 15 at 8:50 p.m. &#8211; Film<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">It is an impossible film: a reconstruction of uncertain events, a lesson in history for the use of our time and a thriller. Steven Spielberg had wanted to use the melodrama to say the genocide of the Jews in <em>Schindler&#8217;s list <\/em>(1993). This time there is a goal that is both less terrible &#8211; rather than trying to represent evil, it is only a question of facing the moral dilemma posed by democracies the fight against terrorism &#8211; and more elusive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">Nourished by memories that the filmmaker has kept from the hostage -taking and the assassination of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, <em>Munich<\/em> is a film that is advancing under the weight of history. This responsibility that the filmmaker has taken is overwhelming. The first victim of this overload is the ease, however natural of Spielberg to make cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">From the funny intrusion of the Palestinian commando in the Olympic village to the final massacre &#8211; <em>Munich<\/em> Take up the thesis that the hostages died because of the Palestinians, while other historians believe that they are rather dead under the bullets of the German police -, the filmmaker divides the drama and makes it the permanent reference of the history which takes place.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__sub-title\">Spy cinema<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">This story is that of Avner (Eric Bana), the bodyguard of the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, propelled chief of a commando dedicated to the elimination of Palestinian officials of the attack. Around him is a heterogeneous group, where intelligence professionals and improvised murderers coexist.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<div class=\"catcher__content\"><span class=\"catcher__title catcher__title--hide\">Read also |<\/span><span class=\"catcher__desc\">    Munich 1972: a disputed shoot of Spielberg on the hostage -taking of the Olympics <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"811122\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/cinema\/article\/2005\/07\/26\/un-tournage-conteste-de-spielberg-sur-la-prise-d-otages-des-jo-de-munich_675505_3476.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">But Spielberg twists the clich\u00e9: it is not chance that precipitated these men together, it is their condition of Jews, from different countries and gathered in the will to defend Israel. The preparations for the first assassination of a Palestinian official, the poet Wael Zwaiter, are described in the tense style specific to the spy cinema. The murder itself is only a sordid climax which throws a first light on the nature of the task entrusted to Avner and his comrades. The doubt, not on the legitimacy of the goal (preserve the security of Israel) but on that of the means, gradually undermines the spirits and the work of the commando.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">Spielberg does not turn the back to the delights of action cinema, and the film is disjointed between rather fun sequences and more theatrical moments. This obstinacy not to let go and the desire to support ideas are only episodically supported by the faculty to stage anxieties and questions. And there is ultimately more beauty in the director&#8217;s will than in the gesture he ended up accomplishing.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<div class=\"catcher__content\"><span class=\"catcher__title catcher__title--hide\">Read also |<\/span><span class=\"catcher__desc\">  <span class=\"icon__premium\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span>    &#8220;September 5&#8221;: a television team in the heart of the Munich tragedy <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3408471\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/culture\/article\/2025\/02\/05\/5-septembre-une-equipe-de-television-au-c-ur-de-la-tragedie-de-munich_6532949_3246.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--reference js-catcher \">\n<p class=\"catcher__desc\"><span class=\"catcher__pilcrow\"\/><span class=\"catcher__label\"><em>Munich<\/em>film by Steven Spielberg (EU, 2005, 150 min). With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Marie-Jos\u00e9e Croze.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"author\">\n<p class=\"article__author-container\"> <span class=\"author__detail\"> <span class=\"author__name\">Thomas Sotinal<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article__reactions\">                      Reuse this content   <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\">Tm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avner (Eric Bana) and Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), in &#8220;Munich&#8221; (2005), by Steven Spielberg. DreamWorks OCS &#8211; Saturday March 15 at 8:50 p.m. &#8211; Film It is an impossible film: a reconstruction of uncertain events, a lesson in history for the use of our time and a thriller. 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