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The Reader (2008)
description written by member Zara:
Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) reflects on the formative sexual relationship he had with older woman Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet) as a young teenager in this poignant drama set in post-World War II Germany. The passionate affair ended when Hanna disappeared. But years later, Michael learns she's on trial for horrific Nazi war crimes. David Kross plays the teenage Michael in this film based on Bernhard Schlink's international best-seller.
| Release Date: | December 10th, 2008 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
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Can we every truly blame someone who is ignorant of how blatantly they are being manipulated?
The Reader forces us to question how we place blame for those who worked within the Nazi regime, but it also asks us to feel empathy for someone who has been forgotten and used within that world. Kate Winslet plays Hanna, a...
(complete The Reader review by Jessica Film Junkie)
| The Reader Movie Review by Lloyd (2/12/2009) |
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KUDOS for kate winslet for her nudity scenes here, unlike other actresses espcially american actresses who use body doubles or adamant and say that they will not ever do nude scenes.
I did not know the entire story of the book/movie and that is good, it made me love the movie even more. Nowadays it is rare to see an...
(complete The Reader review by Lloyd)
| The Reader Movie Review by Denise (1/29/2009) |
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I love Kate Winslet. I find her incredible, and I have made no effort to cover that up. So it pains me to say this: The Reader was good, but it could have been amazing.
The actors are not at fault. In short, it needed to be in German, it needed to be black and white, it needed to be shorter, and it needed a less...
(complete The Reader review by Denise)
If Kate Winslet, who won a Golden Globe for this performance, does not win the Oscar for the same role, then there is no justice in the world. She was absolutely incredible in a role that had her go from predator, to victim; from seemingly oblivious to the magnitude of what she did, to someone willing to take blame that...
(complete The Reader review by Movie Addict)
| The Reader Movie Review by James (1/11/2009) |
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War sucks. Any war. For any reasons. For soldiers and civilians.
It makes people to do the most terrible thing they can ever do in their life — killing another human. While it can be as simple as pressing a button or giving an order, or just watching people die while you can help, it does not change the nature of this...
(complete The Reader review by James)
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