Review of Hannah Arendt (2012) by Mats V — 23 Feb 2013
World-famous German-Jewish Hannah Arendt lives in New York. She goes to Jerusalem to report for New Yorker about the Eichmann trial. Her articles are controversial, because she doesn't find Eichmann evil, even if his crimes are. She finds him so common, so ordinary and the problem is not stupidy, because Eichmann is not stupid. The problem is that Eichmann refused to think. He did not reflect over the line between duty and conscience. And that wasn''t needed in the concentration camp system, because it had punishments without guilt.
That's not the worst, because Arendt also blames Jewish leaders during Holocaust. Not that they in any way were responsible, but for being in a by Arendt defined no mans land between resistance and cooperation.
She gets problem of course and Barbara Sukowa is great in this Margarethe von Trotta movie, where the drama and the climax lies in philosophy and most of all in a lecture Arendt gives at her university in the end. It becomes a passionate speech about thinking.
This review of Hannah Arendt (2012) was written by Mats V on 23 Feb 2013.
Hannah Arendt has generally received positive reviews.
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