Thursday 24 September 2009

The Reader

The reader is such a beautiful and dramatic movie. It takes place in Germany in the 1950's. Kate Winslet plays a woman named Hannah Schmitz, whom starts having an affair with a much younger boy named Michael Berg. The two met at a time in the street, while Michael was feeling very ill, and she helped him. After the boy, decided to thank her for her generosity they started to have this loving affair which would soon become a long lasting memory both of them would not live without. However, Hanna was always interested in having books being read to her, on a daily basis Michael would go running from school to her home for them to enjoy the company of another another, make love and Michael to read to Hanna which she so terribly liked. However soon enough, a twist occurs and the Hanna completely disappears from his life. Over time, Michael starts studying Law at the university and the next time he sees Hanna is at an unexpected court trial where she is being charged. She is sent to prison, for life sentence because she was shamefully embarrassed of telling her secret she has been holding on too so long, even never having told michael himself. In the movie, it shows when Michael is much older and how his not able to let go of Hanna, his past.

All in all, this movie grabs you, and it makes you think how some people are not able to admit something they are very ashamed of, a secret to oneself that would never be told, not even if your own life would be harmed and restricted. It is a book which has been beautifully written by Bernhard Schlink, and turned into a movie.

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