Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1963

It's a space of personal responsibility that allows us to hold ourselves accountable for what it is that we're doing. After the first day of the trial, she writes a letter to her husband and says, the whole damn thing is the now. And when you have that space of privacy and solitude, you're no longer acting in the world before others but you're alone with yourself. She coins the concept of the banality of evil.

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