Justice for Jews
I am a self-proclaimed history buff and noticed that there are some differences in this movie then the events that actually happened. I don't understand why writers, directors, and production companies have to change the historical events and add characters to a historical event. Eichman capture and sentencing is dramatic enough to tell the true facts about the event without adding anything to it. I have watched the old footage of the actual events.
The movie is a spy thriller and the most ironic thing for me in this movie is that the trial was reported by Hannah Arendt, a Jewish woman who fled Germany during the Nazi invasion, for The New Yorker and she coined the phrase “banality of evil.” Ben Kingsley has played many a villain in movies, but he is particularly chilling as Eichmann. An older, looking vulnerable tied and blindfolded, and calmly diminishing his role in the Holocaust, his Eichmann is the face of evil.
Operation Finale is a great, enjoyable movie and I can absolutely recommend it. But if you’ve read the book on which it was based, you might find yourself asking why the changed the history and added characters. This movie is not for the faint-hearted.
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