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The aspect of the movie that pulls me in both directions is the fact that I've become convinced that this movie is *about* the current War on Terror and uses the events of Munich and its aftermath as nothing more than a vehicle to talk about our current situations. I believe this explains why there is a disconnect between the spirit of the book and the spirit of the movie. The book looks at that event and the justice of the response to that event. I think the real thrust of the movie is examining the questionable US response to our most recent encounters with terrorism. My reasoning for this contains spoilers as follows.
Spoiler: I justify this reading of the movie largely through the ending scene which ends with an image of the World Trade Center in New York. The fact that the movie doesn't end in Israel or on some note more directly related to the Munich events but instead ties back to an image which has become so heavily charged since 9-11 irrevocably places the movie in the modern War on Terror as opposed to being more of a dramatized "documentary" about the events in and related to Munich.
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