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The Power of Stories

On Friday evening I went to see the new Steven Spielberg movie, Munich. This movie is a story of a Mossad agent who was contracted to assassinate the Palestinian leaders who were part of Black September. WARNING: Small Spoiler - if you will be seeing the movie, wait to read this until you have watched the movie. One particular series of scenes in the movie drove home the idea of narrative in a powerful way. It began with one of the Palestinians who was going to be the target of an assassination. The man had recently translated the book 1001…

December 26, 2005  |  Permalink   |  TrackBack (0)