Women With Thoughts

Hannah Arendt was a very interesting woman. Not always right, but always interesting. German director Margarethe von Trotta, endlessly fascinating herself, thinks Arendt is interesting enough, in fact, that she made her the subject of a movie. Perhaps unfortunately for Arendt's memory, she chose to focus it on that woman's coverage of and subsequent book about the 1960 trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, as you can imagine from the title alone, was ... well, "controversial" would be a major understatement (story, clip from film): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/movies/hannah-arendt-directed-by-margarethe-von-trotta.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&src=dayp