YMMV / Golda

• Awesome Music: The closing song before the credits, the Leonard Cohen classic "Who By Fire" (appropriate, as it was written after he entertained the IDF troops during the Yom Kippur War).
• Genius Bonus: It goes without saying that Israeli viewers, who are more conversant in the history involved, got a heck of a lot more out of the movie.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Less than two months after the film's release, a day after the 50th anniversary of the shocking Yom Kippur War, Israel was caught off-guard again by the worst terrorist attack it had suffered in its history, which later escalated into a regional conflict against Iran and its proxies in multiple fronts including the Golan Heights and the Red Sea, while Israel itself was accused of indiscriminate bombings and other atrocities against Palestinian civilians.
  • Also knowing that in Real Life, three of the main figures of the movie would be dead in less than ten years:
    • The film shows Golda Meir's death from lymphoma in 1978.
    • After being saddled with the blame for the unpreparedness of the armed forces leading up to the war, David "Dado" Elazar resigned as Chief of Staff in 1974. He passed away two years later - by all accounts a broken man - of a heart attack at the age of 50.
    • Defense Minister Moshe Dayan weathered the political fallout of the war but - after further battles in the Knesset and cabinet - lost the one battle he couldn't win in 1981 when he succumbed to complications of colorectal cancer.
    • Henry Kissinger meanwhile managed to live until 100, dying a few months after the release of the film. However for the rest of his life he was dogged by accusations of war crimes for his involvement in the bombings of Cambodia, the 1973 Chilean coup, and backing Indonesia and Pakistan in their wars in East Timor and Bangladesh respectively, which saw hundreds of thousands dead civilians altogether.

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