HANNAH ARENDT is a picture of the genius who changed the world when she found out that "the banality of evil" was a real thing. Then, after she goes to the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt writes about the Holocaust in ways that no one has ever heard before. This is because she was there. Her work starts a huge controversy right away, and Arendt stands up for herself even when she's attacked by both friends and foes. But as the German-Jewish émigré struggles to hide her own painful memories from the past, the film shows her beguiling mix of arrogance and vulnerability. This shows a soul that has been defined and thrown off course by exile.
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HANNAH ARENDT is a picture of the genius who changed the world when she found out that "the banality of evil" was a real thing. Then, after she goes to the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt writes about the Holocaust in ways that no one has ever heard before. This is because she was there. Her work starts a huge controversy right away, and Arendt stands up for herself even when she's attacked by both friends and foes. But as the German-Jewish émigré struggles to hide her own painful memories from the past, the film shows her beguiling mix of arrogance and vulnerability. This shows a soul that has been defined and thrown off course by exile.
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