"The Reader" isn't the type of movie I would own,but I have been wanting to see,one because I'm a history buff,and I knew that this had something to do with Nazis,and two because if its got something to do with Nazis,and it has a really good cast,its probably gotta be pretty good. And it is.
It was a cold raining night so me and my lady were chilling watching some movies on tv and this came on. About the only way I was going to see it,like I said not the normal type of movie that I would go to a theater to see,or go up to Best Buy and get it on Blu Ray. But I am glad I watched it.Its one of those type of movies,that I don't mind seeing one time,and can appreciate it as a good dramatic film,but also one that I don't have to see ever again....unless I just want to catch Kate "The Carpet Doesn't Match The Drapes" Winslet naked which she is a lot in this film.And that's saying something,because this chick would probably get naked in a kids film.I mean shes gotta be a producers fucking wet dream,shes a great actress and shes gotta be cheap on the wardrobe department.
The movie deals with a teen age boy in Germany named Michael who befriends and starts to get his sex on,with an older women who works the trolleys played by Ms. Winslet in the late 50's in West Germany.And boy do they get their sex on.The first frickin 40 minutes of this movie is the two of them doing the beast with two backs and sitting around naked.But eventually the story starts to kick in.The woman Hannah loves to hear the teen age boy read to her while they lay around naked.And so he reads everything he can get his hands on to her.Their relationship lasts for a summer,then after she gets a promotion and for reasons unknown to the boy she disappears.
The movie moves on a few years later to 1966 and the boy is in law school.His class goes to the courts to see a big trial involving a bunch of women who are being put to trial for being guards at Auschwitz during World War II. This is when he finds out that he had been macking on a NATZI (as Lt Aldo Rain would say).As Hannah is being persecuted for being one of the guards.
Ralph "Don't Call Me Ralphie" Fienes shows up later in the film as the now adult version of Michael as he tries to make amends for not doing something during the trial that would have helped Hannah avoid life in prison.
This is a very good film.Its not a feel good movie,and is something that as I said before that I wont really need to see again.My only real complaint is that there was WAY too much showing of male penis and pubes in this flick....seriously...Its like ok ,enough I get it the dude likes to be naked,but shit its not like they continually showed Kate's bush all the time.Other than that,if you like dramas and catch this on the tv or your at the video store and you want something more serious than 2012 or Sorority Row...give it a shot.
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