I watched it in the cinema for 80 minutes, I couldn't stand to leave, the rest was watched on the computer
After-view: Title "Hannah Arendt Thinking", Content: Single medium shot, Hannah frowning like a thinker, the camera is flattened into a close-up, black screen, subtitle: This is thinking, you guys The scumbags who follow suit.
I originally spent a lot of money to watch this film in Xiaoxitian to escape the pain of writing a book report. I didn’t expect that the process of watching the film would be as painful as reading a book report written by myself, because this film: the narrative is loose and often lacks foreshadowing. A turning point, but what is more serious is that it is flat and straight to the point where there is no turning point; it contains a lot of redundant characters and content, just like the water I poured into my thesis. Of course, you can say that a biopic should reflect all aspects of a character's life, but there are many more than people, Tables, people, dialogue, dialogue, a more efficient and interesting way of storytelling; and, although it claims to be thinking, the film's presentation of thinking: switching back and forth between the court trial video and Hannah's frowning and smoking close-up, then read, just en Read, blow the beard and stare. I think I read a paper and it was kind of boring.
Then there is the sense of division in the subject. "The evil of banality" is a controversial topic, and Hannah Arendt can also be said to be a gray figure in the history of the world. As her biographical film, this film mainly presents her image positively. The whole film may use 300 horizontal push shots, which is a classic method to make the audience identify with the protagonist's psychology. But the film's vague description of her attitude (such as her view of Eichmann) and a psychoanalytic reading of her relationship with Heidegger doesn't make me agree with Hannah's View. The last lecture in class was actually quite funny. The movie promotes independent thinking, but how many of the hundreds of students who applauded sincerely agreed with Hannah's opinion after learning the whole picture of the incident, and how many were copying what others said? Presumably it is this sense of separation that leads some viewers to the conclusion that "the film believes that the theory of banal evil is wrong."
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