![]() ![]() It purports to tell a "true story" via a three-act structure designed to engage and entertain an audience. It's a Hollywood movie that does what Hollywood movies traditionally do: Reassure the audience that the good guys eventually win, even over the glamorously evil. It's not a work of political and/or moral philosophy. Operation Finale is a safe movie that does its best not to upset anyone. ![]() ![]() This denied the Nazis any romance or glamour, and upset a lot of people. He was no Bond villain, just a schmuck who did what he was told, a human cog in a murder machine without the character to disobey. Hannah Arendt wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil about his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, and famously found in him nothing more than ordinary human weakness. I can think of few creatures crueler or sadder than Adolf Eichmann.
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