SEPTEMBER 5-Lives Lost are Lost in this Homage to ABC Lost Me

During the 1972 Olympics in Munich the Israeli Wrestling were held hostage by the PLO and then all killed in a failed rescue attempt. The newly released SEPTEMBER 5 which received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and critical acclaim defames the Israelis who died by taking their tragic story and honoring the crew in the newsroom as heroes.  The cast which portrays ABC's news staff include the talents of Peter Sarsgaard as Roone Arledge, John Magaro as Geoffrey Mason and Ben Chaplin as Marvin Bader are commendable in their roles. However, I condemn the perspective of this film which focuses on the pressures and cunning of covering the situation whose significance is contemptible compared to the fatal events that never should've happened. Was it fascinating to see behind the scenes of how resourceful, manipulative and under pressure the staff were in bringing the tragic events into our homes on live TV? Perhaps. Were the actors compelling? Perhaps. Used in the filmmaking to portray actual events was archival footage of this historic flashpoint. The Olympics held in Munich were the first time the Olympics were broadcast live and the first time since the 1936 Games in Berlin held under the hateful eyes of Hitler. A militant group of the PLO broke into the Olympic Village where there were no armed police and killed two Israeli team members and took the other nine members hostage demanding the release of PLO prisoners held in Israel. Massacre of the remaining Israelis resulted in the debacle rescue attempt under the authority of the German police at an airbase 15 miles outside the Olympic Village. Altogether, this well-acted and craftily made film takes horrific events that happened 50 years ago which bear reminding, into a commercial thriller that aims recognition towards people who were behind the cameras at the time. In my mind, the film sullies the memories of those lives killed by making their stories subliminal to the confines of broadcast studio executives. Perhaps the film passes as an entertaining, taut drama about how the media covered a historic event under extreme circumstances. I maintain this movie skews the perspective away from calamitous life and death situations. The most I attribute to this historic, drama, newsroom story that happened half-a-century ago, is maybe this will inform those who may have no knowledge or recollection of the 1972 Summer Olympics, other than perhaps the American, Jewish Athlete Mark Spitz who brought home seven gold medals for swimming. SEPTEMBER 5 is based on a tarnished script that doesn't deserve Oscar gold.