The Reader (15)

Budd you are going on about the Holocaust once again. It is a film about love and infatuation for an older woman that is greatly complicated by her past. At no point does the film try to say that he past does not matter or because she could not read then all is okay. Amongst other things it is brilliant at raising the issue of how a nation of normal people became a nation of murderers so easily and this is something to study not brush under the carpet. Some people once a mention of the war is made immediately clam up and don't try to analyse how and why. You are one of these. Desperate move to quote Adilf Hitler I feel.

The holocaust is a very important issue and I dont believe it cant be missed at all....but if we are discussing about responsability for it...if you talk to any german person about it, they all feel responsable for this genocide....which is the right attitude to have in the end.....so K. Wins - Hannah, in the film is taking full reponsability for what happened, and she pays the consequenses for that,,,,although she is not the only one to blame....we know too well she is not the only one who must pay for such issue....I think this film works as it enables one to think about it on this terms. (Sorry about my written english but Im italian, and I dont often write in english.)

As Adolf Hitler himself said..As with a few critics some people totally missed the point of the Holocaust...

Budd as with a few people on this and seemingly most of the critics you have also missed the point. One of the refreshing aspects is that the Film never asks for the sympathy vote, never directs you as to how you feel about it. I am staggered how many people think this is some sort of sympathy film for the SS. Just nonsense! It was very reassuring to see the interviews of various people on the DVD, including Daltry, and see what they were trying to achieve and achieve it they did perfectly. Look at this film as just a nazi insight is totally missing the point. Quite what the comparison of Fiennes' parts were I do not know. Yes they are clearly similar but they are totally different works. He was probably bored with teh similarity too. Perhaps you could let us know any differences in Hugh Grant's parts.

Well I shall begin by stating that I enjoyed this movie..Am I the only one to observe that with Ralph F in it that it had an not unrecognisable link to The English Patient...No..Well in the english patient Ralf `s character is split into two parts..Burned man and man before burning..In this his charactes is again intwo..old and young..In the Eng Pat he is obsessed with a lover..In this he is obsessed with a lover..Both have tragic consequences and in both Ralph feels in some way responsible for the fate of his lover...Now you are beginning to get the link..Oh yes you are..But back to the movie..2 points One the idea that an individual can help burn 300 people to death and face twenty years in jail rather than confess to being illiterate is frankly..TOSH..Second ..I do not like to be manipulated by a movie script..We are deliberately led down the path of feeling some sympathy for the K.WIN character..but be honest ..if the movie had contained a cutback scene to her standing refusing to open the doors and allowing the 300 to burn..How much sympathy then would she have received.....The movie, while pretending to tackle the thorny issue of ultimate responsibility succeeds only in minimising truly horrific events by a venere of love and vulnerability..Ah Well The Poor Lassy couldna read..so murderin folk for the SS is understandable then..mmmm..Oh yes and the ending is poor as ultimately the movie has no where to go ..and that is where it ends up..No-Where..but K.W best ever acting performance..and is is just me or have all Ralf F performances been down-hill since the English Patient.

I think "the reader" is a fascinating, moving film, I can also understand why some would not like it. I believe that to put a novel into film is not an easy task, those who have read the novel , disliked the film, I think this is quite common. I also find the negative comments of some of you interesting...But if someone fall asleep during the film I dont think is because the film is boring, but maybe this gay needed a rest, so better going to bed rather than sleeping in a cinema.... :)

I fine The Reader an almost-perfect film. From the first shot of a boiled egg, which somehow made visual the repression of Ralph Fiennes, we are grabbed and know we are watching something beautiful, precious, a work of art. The acting is impeccable, especially David Kross as the young boy experiencing his first love, a love which will shatter his life. Kate Winslett is utter believable, and the love/sex scenes done with great taste and never exploitative, a tricky skill indeed. This film should have got Best Film and Best Director Oscars instead of the ghastly "Slumdog". I think along with "The Hours" it shows Stephen Daldry to be a director of great subtlety and talent. I would see any film he made.

Without doubt your last offering is the most pretencious, garbled drivel I have ever read. For someone who has so much to say, but actually says very little, you sure do not know where the shift key is. I preferred your first literary assassination where you said how much you disliked it, said you had not seen it and gave it 3 stars.

The movie was ordinary...lacked punch...no excuse for Kate W with what she did..she deserved to be punished for her attitude as did the others. Her remore was ony that her teen lover did not rallly when he found her the way she would have liked. He did fine under the circumstances. His reaction was real and just.

UK - are you still sucking on a fag? You sound more wheezy than you ever did.