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Posted at December 31, 1969, 6:00 pm: Quote: Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah I agree! That had bothered me about that scene, and now that you put it into words, yeah, I totally see what you're talking about. It's also the only killing I saw where they are eye to eye with the person they kill, and toy with them a bit first. This would have been really irritatingly sexist, had it not been the impetus for at least one of the gang to later realise that what they were paid to do was not as shocking as the fact that they'd enjoyed it. Yes, the characters weren't acting in an explicitly sexist way. She was the one taking off her clothes to buy time, it was not they who told her to take them off. And sex worked the time when she lured that agent into her hotel room to have him killed so it's only logical she would try that once again. But I think the way Spielberg portraits women, in all his films, is worth discussing. In Munich he presents us with three very typical female characters: the wife, the mother and the femme fatale. When one of the agents makes them leave the dead body uncovered he underlines what her part is in this story: she was a whore and he wants the world to know it. Later on he regrets that they left her like that, of course. But still the female character is just an object in this story. She's showned by Spielberg as an object and is being killed by the agents for being an object. The fact that she's a mercenary underlines her role even further. The male terrorists have convictions, ideals and a Cause they are ready to die for. She doesn't have any of that. She's a contract killer doing her job by being a woman. Original of the message was taken from http://www.movieforums.com/community/ Previous Post: Quote: Originally Posted by Piddzilla Yes, bu... Next Post: Quote: Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah ... |