Should you watch this movie?
Chronology
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports broadcasting team must adjust to a live broadcast of Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group. I won’t mark this as spoilers, as the only spoilers will be about the events of the hostage crisis that you may already know. That. Does Paramount know how to market this movie? Not This movie is set around the terrorist attack on the 1972 Olympics, but it’s actually about an ABC sports team suddenly assigned to provide live coverage of the attack. We see everything from the team’s point of view.
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Unlike other recent films (eg Late Night with the Devil), this one is not presented as found footage, just a dramatization of the events. So, the production does not resort to shaky-cam, but uses "state of art" technology available at the time. Most of the action is done by the behind-the-scenes crew, so you don’t know the people or their names. Jim McKay is the face of the news reports, and viewers old enough to have watched sports back then will know him. Peter Jennings is on-site as the only news subject, not a sports reporter, and he comes off refreshingly like a jerk. Howard Cosell gives voice report and that’s the end of the people you would know.
The team has a lot of problems with reporting the news
I assume some archive was used, but it’s absolutely flawless so I’m not sure (and the check-outs rolled in too fast). A lot of it has to do with the technology of the time (which will sound boring if I describe it, but it’s presented in an interesting way). But there are also ethical issues that news crews might not want to discuss. For example: should they broadcast live video from the scene of the attack when it could lead to someone being killed being broadcast. The film covers roughly 24 hours and tells us only what the crew knows. This leaves us with some ambiguities, first of all: was there a Black September; and what really happened in the fog of war at the airport.
The film is absolutely captivating
This latter question is somewhat disturbing because we are left with the impression that, after the terrorists and hostages had left the Olympic Village, the German police were, perhaps, less concerned about protecting the hostages. That seems unfair to the Germans of the time. Before the action begins, we get some establishing scenes where we meet the characters and see them reporting on sports. I was surprised to see here the admissions about the injection of politics into sports coverage – both in fueling Cold War rivalries and exploiting long-standing grievances from World War II. When the action got going, I was surprised how often I found myself on the edge of my seat. It feels like a time capsule.
It just works
It feels like a behind-the-scenes expose. It feels like a terrorism story.
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