In Munich, Jewish Women in Film Are Flat As 8MM Reels

Steven Spielberg's epic "Munich" renders Jewish women as completely flat and ineffective: indeed, if the movie was a silent picture, the women would seem more equal than they do now. They are presented as selfless wife supporting their tortured husbands, or elderly matrons that run the country but leave the "real work" to the men. This trend has infected Hollywood, running even as recently as the recent Meryl Streep film "Prime," where Streep plays a tackily-dressed Jewish mother who fails to compete against shiksa goddess Uma Thurman-indeed, this trend of Jewish stereotyping seems to have no end in sight, and, sadly enough, it seems like the only alternative to completely phasing out Jewish women in general. Eric Bana says in Munich, "I killed seven men"-indeed, Spielberg forgets the facts: it was seven men...and one woman.