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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...film’s weaknesses: it belabors the psychoanalytical connection between sex and violence. In one particularly egregious scene, Kauffman suffers from vivid flashbacks of the Munich massacre while making love to his wife. Spielberg cuts the scene so that Kauffman climaxes coincides with the terrorists executing their hostages??€”I doubt even Freud would invite such a literal correlation. Thankfully, such missteps are few and far between. Impressively, Spielberg is able to maintain the film’s momentum even after the protagonists have ended their assignment. Kauffman’s reflection on the psychic cost of protracted...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Munich | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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