(He's so bummed that he can't even rouse himself to emulate the other cast members' German accents.) Michael is apparently meant to be the last of Hanna's victims, the postwar equivalent of the doomed children who read to her while behind barbed wire. Long divorced and distant from his grown-up daughter, the morose lawyer is supposedly scarred by his underage fling with a woman twice his age. But all he can bring himself to do is become her reader again, reciting books onto cassette tapes that he sends to her in prison. For many years, Michael is haunted by Hanna, who remains his great love.
He wants to help Hanna, yet is repulsed by what she did. Personifying postwar Germany, Michael is conflicted. 4:30- 6:30pm: 5 Madam Bonnie's Blonde Ale and 13th Step Shot, 6 house wine, 12 signature cocktails. The defendants are former death-camp guards, and one of them is Hanna. Writing early reader books is actually a very specific skill. Now a law student, Michael joins his professor (a sly Bruno Ganz) and classmates as observers at a trial. The wrong reason to write books for early readers is that you have a picture book thats too long. One of them, which can be intuited simply from the place and period, is confirmed eight years later. Hanna has two secrets, neither of which is hard to guess. Michael tells Hanna he loves her, and she sometimes hints that she shares his feelings. go on" - are among the schoolboy's selections. Chekhov, Twain, Tintin and Lady Chatterley's Lover - "This is disgusting.
The two meet regularly for sex thereafter, and after the first few trysts, Hanna demands a singular form of foreplay: Michael must read to her. Soon, Hanna's bathing him, and when he steps from the tub, he discovers that she too is naked. After a long recuperation, Michael returns to thank his benefactor. He's helped by Hanna (stalwart Kate Winslet), a tram conductor who generally keeps to herself. He is ashamed to reveal his affair with this woman. One day in 1958, teenage Michael is overcome by illness on his way home from school. The crucial decision in 'The Reader' is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it. Rather than evoking memory's knotted tapestry, the relentless flashbacks and flash-forwards seem merely mechanical. Like the earlier The Hours, also from director Stephen Daldry, The Reader leaps about in time - which doesn't boost its momentum. But he first became that sort of reader almost 40 years earlier, when he was 15 (and played by David Kross). That person is Michael, introduced as a melancholy lawyer (Ralph Fiennes) in mid-'90s Berlin.
THE READER BOOK MOVIE
The movie is in English, of course, which immediately puts some viewers at a disadvantage: They can't know that the German title, Der Vorleser, refers only to someone who reads out loud.
Thus begin the problems of The Reader, a British movie of a well-reviewed German novel about issues both moral and bookish. Ralph Fiennes plays an older, more subdued Michael Berg.Īdapting a literary novel to film is always tricky, and it's all the more so when language itself is among the book's subjects.
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