For me, I'd say it was in Munich, when...well, let me throw in a
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Okay, only read if you've seen Munich - or The Village. You've been warned. When the group goes to murder the Dutch woman. It's so cold-blooded, so quietly violent...it is, in every sense of the word, MURDER. And when Eric Bana goes to cover her up, and Hanns Zischler tells him to leave her uncovered and pulls her robe aside, revealing her bloody, naked body...oh, god, and how they shoot her in the head...it's just so awful! I don't recall a murder scene which was so realistically revolting. Only when Joaquin Phoenix gets stabbed in The Village have I seen another "quiet violence" remotely similar. Whew. Spielberg really knows how to wrench your emotions around.
"...and your last thought is that you have become a noise...a thin, nameless noise among all these others...howling in the empty dark room"
--Ulver, "Nowhere/Catastrophe"