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Opening scene really upset me


I rented this film from Netflix and didn't notice when I selected it that it was a De Palma film. Somehow I confused it in my mind with the Disney films Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain (which I had never seen before but had heard of), so I was expecting some light fluff.

Can you imagine the shock I experienced during that opening, politically-charged and very emotional scene? The subtitle showed that the location was the "Mid East," but the signage in the scene clearly showed that the setting was Israel. And the terrorists were clearly Arabs (or at least the viewer was led to believe so at that point in the film).

I don't feel that the horrors of real life should be censored from film.
But when seeing such horrors in film, I need to be in the right frame of mind.

(And no need to fill this thread up with hate messages. I acknowledge that it was my error in not properly researching the film before watching it. I am just sharing a bit about my personal experience of viewing it, given my frame of mind at the time.)

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What??

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Not to worry. It was all a set up.

It's that man again!!

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Flanders! Flanders! Flanders! Flanders!

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I wasn't sure who was supposed to be the bad guys. Both the team in black and the guys with black and white checkerboard both seemed to be shooting at Kirk Douglas.

However, for a 1978 movie, nothing seemed to have changed in regards to the government listening in on citizens (as Gordon Jumps character states), or the opening scene in which you're referring. 38 years later...

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Agreed. I found that to be very confusing on which of the shooters were bad.

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no way you could film that today. imagine the outrage from the Muslim world

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