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In contrast, the film September 5th plays like its Bizarro counterpart

Chronology

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcast crew finds themselves pressed into reporting on a hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. Saturday Night was a film about the filming of the very first Saturday Night Live. While Saturday Night leaned on the humor of the SNL production, September 5th is understandably devoid of any comedy.

And let’s face it: neither the news media nor Israel are particularly popular these days

Instead, it’s the true story of an ABC sports news crew reporting on the Olympics, where an initially celebratory atmosphere turns to horror when gunmen attack the athletes’ village and start shooting the Israelis. This is undoubtedly a powerful film, but it’s hard to imagine who the audience might be. Americans, no longer known for their enthusiasm for history, might find a story in which the “good guys” get lost to be a tough sell.

The 39th victim — of course they were

A film like this might have resonated a decade or two ago, but today’s depiction of faceless Palestinian murderers and severely persecuted Israelis won’t resonate as much as it once did. That’s not to say that the murdered athletes weren’t. But modern audiences are increasingly aware that Palestinians have voices and grievances, too.

Reducing them to one-dimensional villains ignores the larger context of the ongoing nightmare in the occupied territories

It’s akin to telling the story of Custer’s murder at Little Bighorn without delving into why the Lakota and Cheyenne were angry. . Sure, you could describe Native Americans as murderers, but if you did, you would miss the larger reality of broken treaties, stolen land, and genocide.

Similarly, the events depicted on September 5th are factual, but they are also incomplete