Rather than devoting much of the film to explaining Arendt's "banal evil," the film is intended to show how a female scholar struggles to assert her own independent point of view and defend it in a trial about ethnic grievances. her point of view.
I don't know how a shy girl gradually transformed into a confident and calm female philosopher. The first half of the film tries to show Arendt's strength, independence and calmness as a woman, such a female image is far from life, and in the second half of the film, she asks the teacher Heidegger in the woods and can't bear it in the middle of the night. Crying under great pressure, saying "I have no family, only friends" in front of an old friend's bed, we in front of the screen felt her strength even more and realized that she was just an ordinary woman.
On the cover of the book "On the Origin of Totalitarianism", the woman with gentle eyebrows, it is difficult for me to associate her with the image in the film, with the image the film wants to show, with her behavior. And because of this, I admire her even more. A person who has a resolute character and insists on his own views may not necessarily be clear-cut, confident and firm in his eyes, or he can be gentle and watery in his eyes.
Personally, I admire Arendt, she can maintain independent thinking no matter what the situation, and she trains her thinking to be independent of nationality and background, and to be completely independent.
Ordinary people can't get rid of the way of thinking formed by their environment and origin. Some people try to jump out of the original circle and go beyond themselves, such as Tolstoy, while some people rely on this hotbed, because it allows him to find shelter. His group is thus protected.
If the former type of person wants to speak out, he must be isolated and helpless. Except for the ridicule of those who belong to different groups, no one can deeply understand his thoughts, and the only ones left are those who only understand this spirit but cannot understand his specific behavior and its motives. People support him, or feel sorry and regret for him.
There are two possible outcomes of such a person's behavior. One is to become a part of history and disappear into the clouds of the past. The second is to become the pioneer of history, the pioneer of the thorny road, and the object of praise for future generations.
And those of us who are descendants, are they not today's people? When it is our turn to face that one percent of disagreement, we may not be able to honestly think about the reasons behind the other person's point of view.
Don't blindly follow others.
Don't be in the water, look at the shore. Not on the shore, look in the water. Light refracts.
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