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

During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports broadcasting team had to adapt to live coverage of the Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group.. Saturday Night was a movie about the making of the very first Saturday Night Live.

This is undeniably a powerful film, but it’s hard to imagine who the audience might be

While Saturday Night leaned into the humor of creating SNL, September 5 is, understandably, devoid of any comedy at all. Instead, it is a sobering true story about the ABC sports news team covering the Olympics, where an initially celebratory atmosphere turns to horror as gunmen storm the athletes' village and start shooting Israelis.

And let’s face it: neither the news media nor Israel enjoy much popularity these days

Americans, already not known for their enthusiasm for history, might find a story where the "good guys" lose to be a tough sell. A film like this might have resonated a decade or two ago, but today, portraying faceless Palestinian murderers and strictly victimized Israelis isn’t going to resonate as it once might have.

That’s not to say the murdered athletes weren’t #39;t victims-of course they were

But modern audiences are increasingly aware that Palestinians have voices and grievances too. Reducing them to one-dimensional villains ignores the broader context of the ongoing nightmare in the Occupied Territories.

Similarly, the events depicted in September 5 are factual but they also happen to be incomplete

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