Just like at the end of the movie, her former friend said, "play yourself as a German intellectual who looks down on the Jews". Indeed, Hannah Arendt pondered the banal evil of Einchmann, a "killing machine" from a philosophical height, and wrote "Eichmann in Jerusalem". Her summary is "thinking, not knowledge, but the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, beauty and ugliness". This speech and theory won applause, giving up thinking is just obedience, in fact, what is giving up is one's own power as a human being. Keep thinking, keep thinking, this can also give a glimpse of how German philosophy is flourishing.
But emotionally, it's really unacceptable. Even in the incompetent, numb, and cold-blooded Jewish Council. When you really judge him as a third party, a bunch of people with blood and conscience will defend him immediately. Hannah is brave enough to risk the world. This is indeed her usual style.
At least, she was thinking. What about us? We hope that after watching it, we can think.
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