Hannah Arendt

This movie raises important and troubling issues, of great relevance to our own times. Arendt argued that the monstrous evil of the Holocaust was not committed by fang-toothed monsters, but by ordinary men and women who loved their children and their dogs. This was not to condone or to pardon the Nazi's and their hideous crimes, but to warn us all that good people can do terrible things. And the vicious reaction to her analysis simply reinforced her point — the world is not black and white; we need to vigilant both against future Hitler's and our own connivance in their crimes.