The new Hollywood thriller, The Debt, is another exercise in one of tinseltown's favorite themes - moral relativism. In this film, a group of three Israeli agents, infiltrated into East Berlin in the mid 1960s in order to capture a notorious Nazi concentration camp butcher, lie to the world for 30 years about the outcome of their inglorious adventure. Torn by guilt to various degrees (from none to overwhelming), they bask in undeserved glory for a lifetime until, in the mid 1990s, the specter of their horrible secret being revealed leads to a desperate attempt to cover up their moral misbehavior. The movie is very well done. The acting is superb, the sets are graphic and seemingly authentic, the dialog crisp and the action scenes - at which Hollywood is so expert - are taut and exciting. The seamless weave of past and present is extremely clever. The moral quandary in which the agents find themselves when their extraction plans go awry is starkly drawn, compelling to contemplate and...(Read Full Post)