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Desmond 2022-04-20 09:02:23
To those who observe calmly and think objectively
In 1961, Israel tried Adolf Eichmann, a former high-ranking Nazi German official and known as the "executioner". Hannah Arendt, a famous Jewish female philosopher who has lived in the United States for many years, was invited by The New Yorker to write about the trial. Her manuscript caused an...
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Makenzie 2022-04-19 09:02:44
banal evil
Arendt's final speech was truly enlightening. "The greatest evil in the world is the evil committed by the little people. It is the evil committed by people without motives. There is no criminal idea. There is no evil in the heart. There is no devil's will. Call it the evil of banality" and "Since...
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Gabriel 2022-03-25 09:01:20
I just heard about the book "The Origin of Totalitarianism" a few days ago, and then I found this film. It does not review the protagonist's life like a common biographical film, nor does it exaggerate love and love, but focuses on showing Arendt's story before and after the Nazi Eichmann trial, but captures the heart of Arendt's ideas well: "evil", such as "banal evil" (a motiveless, unthinking blindness conformity to evil), and harm among fellow men. The people who oppose Arendt are people who don't think deeply, but this is also the most common people. Overall, the film is powerful, especially the speech near the end of the film, which is deafening and thought-provoking. ps: Arendt is really a big smoker.
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Burdette 2022-03-29 09:01:07
I love Arendt, but only from a cinematic point of view, what this tells has little visual value (the most valuable is the real historical image of the trial of Eichmann), or it almost only does What words can do. "Mediocre" movies. | The director is actually Schlondorff's ex-wife. 2700
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Heinrich Blücher: Dearest. Don't cry.
Hannah Arendt: I spoke to the doctor. He said you only have a fifty percent chance.
Heinrich Blücher: Don't forget the other fifty percent.
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Hans Jonas: But Eichmann is a monster. And when I say monster, I don't mean Satan. You don't need to be smart or powerful to behave like a monster.
Hannah Arendt: You're being too simplistic. What's new about the Eichmann phenomenon is that there are so many just like him. He's a terrifyingly normal human being.
