Review of The Reader (2008) by Meydianarizki21 — 28 Sep 2021
Psychological morality play, romance and WWII aftermath. Hannah, a German woman who is unable to read is a Good Samaritan and helps Michael, an older teenage boy. They later enter into a romantic relationship.
As he is completing his law studies his class attends a court case where Hannah is one of several defendants in a post-war prosecution of suspected Nazi “collaborators”. He knows she can’t read, a fact which could lesson her guilt and sentence but remains silent, in effect sealing her fate.
This film focuses on moral grey areas, the ambiguity facing the protagonists and those immediately around them. Just as millions did nothing, standing by without defending the Jews, there are those who similarly will standby preferring to accept mis-truths about an accused person and watch with eyes closed-shut as others are condemned to suffer and die –JV.
Drama, romance. Germany-US. AA: Actress (Kate Winslet). BAFTA: Best Leading Actress. THE READER, dir. Stephen Daldry. Kate Winslet..
This review of The Reader (2008) was written by Meydianarizki21 on 28 Sep 2021.
The Reader has generally received positive reviews.
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