Thursday, January 29, 2009
Based on Bernard Schlink’s best-selling novel, The Reader explores the many gray areas of Nazism during and after WWII in Germany. It begins with a boy’s sexual awakening with an older woman who, at times, is enigmatic and distant from the world around her. The woman, Hanna Schmit (Kate Winslet) buries a secret so inside herself that she hides it from her younger lover, Michael Berg (Peter Kross), and from society. The affair lasts only a summer.
After the mysterious departure of Hanna, Michael is forced to walk among his peers, and eight years later, finds himself in law school. During his education, Hanna and he reunite under unforeseen circumstances that will have you on the edge of your seat. Not only is Hanna on trial for a sick and unfathomable war crime, Michael now must make a decision that may haunt him for the rest of his adult life.
As an aged and respected lawyer, Michael, now being played by Ralph Fiennes, reflects back on his summer with Hanna, and ultimately finds himself face to face with another soul affected by Hanna’s actions.
The Reader is a well-crafted film that will have you second guessing the human of the Nazi war crimes. It is no longer black and white. It is only shades of gray.
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