"Heaven" isn't all its cracked up to be.

Rating: 7/10 (1 December 2019)

I just saw the movie "The Book Thief" and I would like to give my opinion on it. This movie is based off of the book by Markus Zusak. A girl named, Liesel, who is welcomed with open arms to a man and his wife. The wife is a very mean women and the man acts very sweet when Liesel first arrives. This movie sets places during World War II. This movie shows what a family did to hide a Jewish person at this time.
In this movie, I liked the presentation of the bombs falling from the sky and hitting the town. I found it ironic that the street name was heaven and it got bombed. I liked that the movie showed Liesel and her love for books. The movie also had some cliffhangers in their that made you gasp and I thought they did a terrific job to pull the watcher in. I didn't like that there were some things in the movie that were very unclear. For example, they didn't mention who the narrator was at all during the movie. Another example would be at the start of the movie when Liesel enters the house the mom gives her a white ball and they don't mention what t is throughout the movie either. I didn't like how long it took for the movie to start becoming interesting but after about the 1 hour mark it gets a lot better. I believe the moral lesson of this movie was to show the power of literacy because Liesel begins to read better everyday and she quietly rebels against the Nazi party. Even the Jewish man, Max, who the family is hiding and he writes his story of Hitlers "Mein Kampf". All in all I would give this movie a 7/10 mainly because it was slow and some parts were very confusing to understand but it was a good storyline.