But the truth is, the home movies these guys took were, for the most part, remarkably boring.
Isn't that the nature of all home movies? I mean, they weren't documenting the actual Watergate burglary, or Nixon's impromptu, insomniac visit with college students at the Lincoln Memorial in the aftermath of the Kent State massacre. But to see a more intimate, from-the-inside perspective is worthwhile.
Our Nixon doesn't spell out its conclusions, but it suggests that people involved in sinister activity aren't inherently sinister themselves and thus cannot be dismissed as easily as we may prefer. Indeed, I can't help except think of Hannah Arendt's famous conception of "the banality of evil."
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