jacals-montfy
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One the face of it, this is a very simple story that could have been made badly.
September 5th, 1972, we are in the middle of the Summer Olympics in Munich. ABC's sport team are covering the whole games for USA. They are about to handover to the night team when Marianna Gebhardt (Leonie Benesch), the resident German translating, and the cable guy of the studio hear what they think is gunfire. Confused, tired and not sure what to do, Marianna goes to investigate. From here, it turns out a terrorist is ensuing only hundreds of yards from the studio, and ABC are the only international team to provide live coverage of everything that ensues. It is up to Roone Arlege (Peter Saarsgaard) and newbie Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro) to decide whether to do their duty and cover it, or save the potential risk the lives of the hostages and leaving it be.
What made this film so gripping was the attention to detail. And by that I mean, every single detail, be it the use of words, camera angles, the importance of gutting out a phone, within the story, had it's own separate importance, the failure of which could have stark consequences.
There was a tension among the characters, making sure they have the right slot, every decison made had to be the right one, politically sensitive at times, whether to air it or not (this plays out in quite a sinister way).
The camera angles on our side reflected the camera angles in the film, which meant we essentially got the view that the team in 1970 would have had.
This attention to detail, putting such importance on each one, meant that it was thrilling because one small misstep, could have grave results.
September 5th, 1972, we are in the middle of the Summer Olympics in Munich. ABC's sport team are covering the whole games for USA. They are about to handover to the night team when Marianna Gebhardt (Leonie Benesch), the resident German translating, and the cable guy of the studio hear what they think is gunfire. Confused, tired and not sure what to do, Marianna goes to investigate. From here, it turns out a terrorist is ensuing only hundreds of yards from the studio, and ABC are the only international team to provide live coverage of everything that ensues. It is up to Roone Arlege (Peter Saarsgaard) and newbie Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro) to decide whether to do their duty and cover it, or save the potential risk the lives of the hostages and leaving it be.
What made this film so gripping was the attention to detail. And by that I mean, every single detail, be it the use of words, camera angles, the importance of gutting out a phone, within the story, had it's own separate importance, the failure of which could have stark consequences.
There was a tension among the characters, making sure they have the right slot, every decison made had to be the right one, politically sensitive at times, whether to air it or not (this plays out in quite a sinister way).
The camera angles on our side reflected the camera angles in the film, which meant we essentially got the view that the team in 1970 would have had.
This attention to detail, putting such importance on each one, meant that it was thrilling because one small misstep, could have grave results.
