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Can someone explain me the LAST SCENE?!


We see the Twin Towers and 9 of the 11 (9-11) terrorist text.
Why that scene?

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You mean last shot?

Spielberg is all about humanity, this movie questioned the old savages traditions blood for blood, eye for eye, escalating and provoking more blood and sufferings.
Last shot on WTC show that cruelty and revenge, war conflicts, are provoking more violence in the future, rather love and peace.

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It was simply a shot of the NYC skyline. The WTC Twin Towers were part of that skyline in the early-mid 1970s. This was simply an attempt to accurately portray the environment - no more politically-motivated than trying to show the correct period automobiles.

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Oh plz
It had more meaning than that.

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The WTC Twin Towers were part of that skyline in the early-mid 1970s.

Spielberg could have shown a shot of the Statue of Liberty. Or Jerusalem. Or the Pyramids.

But he showed a landscape that is perhaps the most emotionally charged scene for Americans, the Twin Towers. It was deliberate



In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster

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The last scene - the conversation between Avner and Ephraim, in a park - took place in NYC. Showing the Jerusalem skyline as a fade-out would have made no sense. Also, is the Statue of Liberty even visible from that park? If the film-makers had *not* been historically-accurate, and not added back in the WTC, people would be complaining that Spielberg was in-effect supporting terrorism.

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My point was that the last scene could have been anywhere, but it was deliberately done to frame the World Trade Centre attack as a natural progression of the continuing violence.
The anger of the Palestinians in perpetrating the Munich massacre, the anger of Israel in sending a hit team to kill them (and in the process killing 4 innocent people), the responding anger of Sauds to hatch a plot against America for supporting Israels aggression, and so it goes on.



In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster

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re: "But he showed a landscape that is perhaps the most emotionally charged scene for Americans, the Twin Towers. It was deliberate."

I think you are misjudging the majority of we Americans. There was nothing "emotionally charged" about it. My only reaction was: "Cool. The film-makers used CGI for a *good* reason this time: an accurate and period-correct portrayal of the NYC skyline."

How would emotions come into play? We already properly despise the Palestinians and radical Muslims for the atrocious acts they have committed over the decades, and the majority of us are right-minded and support Israel. No attempts at playing with our emotions would have altered or magnified that. Very few of us are so easily manipulated by emotions.

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We already properly despise the Palestinians ...
Very few of us are so easily manipulated by emotions.

Yeah, the four innocent bystanders Israel murdered as part of their terrorist stalking in revenge for the eleven Jews Black September killed don't matter because they were't Jews or American.



In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster

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If you think it was just a coincidence that the final shot of the movie was of the Twin Towers, then you my friend, are stupid.




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911 was an inside job

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Continuing violence can be perpetuated from many sources, not just the direct or inferred source. And many know it to be an inside job perpetuated onto Muslims. Muslims were used. How else are they (those in power) able to further their possession of the oil fields? Using people, factions, countries is still being done. Whay goes around comes around (karma, seed planting) and America will get hers. Unfortunately, the general American public will be caught in the middle.

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WW3

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RandomHasard, Od1n explained the last scene well. IMO violence begets violence, lending to it being harder to find a peaceful solution.

Spielberg is all about humanity, this movie questioned the old savages traditions blood for blood, eye for eye, escalating and provoking more blood and sufferings.
Last shot on WTC show that cruelty and revenge, war conflicts, are provoking more violence in the future, rather love and peace.


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For 155+ minutes Steven Spielberg has shown us this story based on Israel's "War on Terror" following the atrocity of the Munich Olympics massacre of their athletes. With that shot he makes the covert a touch more overt: that what we have been watching is just as applicable to the U.S.'s "War on Terror" following the 9/11 attacks. It's a bit akin to Nietzsche's warning for "He who fights monsters..."

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