The movie focuses on a specific, high-stakes period in the life of German-Jewish philosopher between 1960 and 1964. It centers on her decision to travel to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker .
The film portrays thinking as an active, solitary struggle. It suggests that a failure to think for oneself is what allows totalitarian systems to function. Hannah_Arendt_m1080p_2012_
Arendt argued that great evil can be committed by "nobodies"—bureaucrats who simply refuse to think or make moral judgments for themselves. The movie focuses on a specific, high-stakes period