Life goes on

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 2014)

This film tells the story of a young girl who is adopted by a poor family in the backdrop of Germany in the Second World War.
Seeing the Second World War through the child's eye on a micro level is interesting, because there's no excessive violence or gory details. There's still much humanity around, such as the burgmeister's wife letting Liesel into her library for reading. On a citizen level, life goes on.
The plot is a bit slow in the first hour, then all of a sudden it speeds up and many tragedies strike. I would have liked it even more if the pace was more balanced throughout the film.