In 1961, when the 13-year-old Israeli state was trying Adolf Eichmann for his role in orchestrating the Holocaust, Hannah Arendt surmised that “ the trouble with [Adolf] Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. ” The statement is still provocative; we like our villains to be firmly placed on a binary of good and evil.

Many films have examined Arendt's central examination of the so-called "banality of evil," a label which is oft-misconstrued, improperly co-opted, and poorly defined. Jake Paltrow's June Zero and Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest more successfully understood that this banality, this normality was what made Nazism so "terrifying," in A

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