The Louie "Book Thief" Movie Review

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2013)

This was a very interesting movie. The setting is Germany during WWII. A girl is sent to live with a German family as a foster child. Typically you would see in a movie set in this era a lot of horrid situations and Nazi criminal actions. But the story is told from the perspective of the everyday German citizens living in a small towntheir struggles at the time and this young girl and how she dealt with her situation. But don't think it is a downer of a movie because it is not. You see the determination this girl has to learn to read and what she does to accomplish this goal. Add to it colorful characters that you like and that you learn to like and the side stories that go along with all that. It actually has some humor throughout the movie. This movie keeps your attention throughout and gives you a glimpse of a culture that most know little about during the time it is portrayed. Entertaining? Yes. Interesting? Definitely. I give it a "B".