The Reader
Directed by Stephen Dalbry
Please enjoy another one of my way late to the party reviews, this time about The Reader. Kate Winslet actually won an Oscar. See the following yanked straight out of Wikipedia.
The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a sexual relationship with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She disappears only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past – a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment
I find it incredibly unlikely that somebody could be admitted to the SS without proving literacy. The SS was the elite service of the National Socialists. Hanna joined well before the end of the war, when they’d let anyone in. As we see in the trial, she can’t even write her name. How did she fill out the SS application?
Two, she’s too pretty. Nobody’s gonna see a movie with an ugly woman, but she doesn’t look like any SS guard I’ve ever seen.
Also are we supposed to feel sorry for her? Poor girl can’t read, so forget about the people she burned up?
Enjoyable to watch, but pretty stupid.
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