The speeches don't come until the very end, and all the previous episodes have been relatively bland, so if you're not interested in philosophy or political commentary, you might drop the drama halfway through. However, from a purely film perspective, it is still worth talking about.
The scenes at the beginning and at the end are very stereotype of philosopher, with few strokes, but very brilliant. If you also appreciate the deep hesitation that philosophers have. In this kind of contemplation, she couldn't do anything while lying on the sofa. Her brain was racing at that time.
Arendt and her husband Heinrich are relatively weak main lines, making the tug-of-war with friends, cooperation with the editors of The New Yorker, besieged by intellectuals of the Jewish community, these three sub-lines seem very Strong, even if the secondary line is intermittent in appearance.
By the time the final speech came, Arendt had all her points in one place. These views include: 1. The emergence of a new kind of human evil—the banal evil, which appears on behalf of human beings, not just between the Nazis and the Jews. 2. The wind of thinking, this is the point of view she learned from Heidegger, the thinking of philosophers is very different from the knowledge of the public.
The screenshots below are powerful statements about two arguments.
[Argument 1: The Evil of Mediocrity]
[Argument 2: The wind of thinking]
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