Where they have burned books, they will soon be burning people.

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2014)

I read Markus Zusak's novel "The Book Thief" a few years ago and thought that it would make a good movie. The movie based on it isn't a masterpiece but is still a good movie. The focus is a girl saving books from burnings in Nazi Germany while her family harbors a Jewish man in the basement. One of the things that the viewer notices is that the mayor denounces books but has an entire library in his house.
Death narrates the book and movie. Part of the point of this is that Death was very busy during the Third Reich, but he also reminds us that he will one day meet each of us. And amid all the evil of Nazism, there were still people who did what they could to stand up to the regime, even if they did so surreptitiously. The point is that we will all eventually die, and then it will come time to think seriously about what we did during our lives. Good movie.