“All There Is To Know About Adolph Eichmann” – Leonard Cohen EYES:………………………………………MediumHAIR:………………………………………MediumWEIGHT:………………………………..MediumHEIGHT:…………………………………MediumDISTINGUISHING FEATURES…….NoneNUMBER OF FINGERS:………………..TenNUMBER OF TOES………………………..TenINTELLIGENCE………………………Medium What did you expect? Talons? Oversize incisors? Green Saliva? Madness? The above quoted poem is Leonard Cohen’s reply to Hannah Arendt’s writings on the banality of evil. Kei Kumai’s THE SEA AND POISON takes us down a similar path. Based on a novel by Shusaku Endo, tries to imagine the circumstances around the real-life war atrocities that occurred at Kyushu University. There, in 1945, Japanese doctors performed vivisections on downed American fliers. Shot in startlingly vivid black and white, THE SEA AND POISON
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