Thrice failed to read the book - so glad this movie came out

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2014)

As I write this my eyes are literally swollen and puffy and my nose needs constant tissue-attention. As I said in my summary, I have already tried to read this book many times - in fact it is currently sitting on my phone now, still waiting to be read. My attention was never grabbed in those first few chapters and so I failed, which was always annoying for me, because I heard it was such a good book. And then I saw the trailer for the movie - and I was happy - finally I could know the story. Well, wow. WOW. Powerful story. SO interesting to see WW2 from the perspectives of everyday German citizens. And thankfully so too, because there's too many stories out there that cast Germans as villains. I saw someone else's review on here that called the film 'slow', whereas I found the 'slowness' to be suspenseful as hell: I was constantly waiting for SOMETHING to happen at any moment like I was watching a horror film. I loved the story, and the characters and the acting and everything. Hated it too in a way... overall I am so glad to have experienced it. I think now with knowledge of the story, I can finally get myself through the book - the original masterpiece. Happy face!