How Could A Mass-Murderer Seem So Caring? ‘Operation Finale’ Review
Operation Finale recounts the post-World War II capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief operating officers within Adolf Hitler's Holocaust bureaucracy. Based on historical detail, the dramatic film artfully develops a bi-focal vision of indelible atrocities executed by acolytes of the Führer and those who sought justice for such crimes against humanity.
The movie's marquee foreshadows psychological shards of how its star, Oscar-winning Sir Ben Kingsley, portrays Eichmann as a blood-spattered, myopic man nearly blinded by his Sieg Heil vows to Nazi ideology. Ricocheting between his time as an architect of executions and his cunning life lived as Ricardo Klement, a Spanish/Yiddish-speaking fugitive in Argentina, the film portrays Eichmann as both a serial mass murderer as well as a loving husband and father dedicated to his blissful life of routines.
