“A casual relationship with reality”
Categories: Movies
I just re-watched the documentary "One Day in September" last night. I caught it on cable a couple of years ago. It's about terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the subsequent events of which are the subject of Spielberg's new film "Munich".
When I saw it the first time, I was shocked at how little I knew about this whole event, I think I kind of recall a paragraph on it in one of my high school textbooks. But it really seems like the sort of thing that would filter into the public consciousness and people would just know about it, like the Kennedy assassination or Watergate.
I wanted to re-watch it before seeing the new movie because I can't imagine being able to really understand "Munich" without seeing "One Day". It's a heartbreaking and infuriating documentary. Infuriating towards the subject I mean, not the doc itself. The whole situation was made worse by incompetence piled on top of cowardice on top of incompetence, and aside from the hostages themselves, there's very few that come out looking blameless. Anyhow, I just figured I should mention the documentary because I think, especially for people from my generation, seeing it will help contextualize "Munich" (though I haven't seen that yet). So, you know... rent it or whatever. At any rate, it really does seem like the sort of thing that everyone should know about.
posted by Mark Kawakami at December 22, 2005, 12:12 PM // permalink // (6) Comments