What we’re getting wrong about ‘The Zone of Interest’

Lyndsey Stonebridge, a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, is the author of “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.”

by Lyndsey Stonebridge for The Washington Post

For some it is an achingly timely masterpiece, for others it is “Holokitsch,” as shallow as the evil it denounces. But whether critics love or hate Jonathan Glazer’s movie “The Zone of Interest,” nominated for five Academy Awards, not a review goes by without evoking Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil,” the phrase she used in her controversial reports on the 1961 trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. But is the film really as much Arendt’s as is assumed?

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