the book thief - review

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2014)

was really looking forward to The Book Thief. Then I forgot about it and never realized when it has come out since it didn't hit cinemas where I live.
When I saw it was out I remembered how excited I was about it, about Geoffrey Rush being in it. I sat down and started watching. The beginning is quite slow and you start thinking it's not as good as you expected. I'm glad I didn't stop the film at that point. All of a sudden the characters catch your attention and you realize what everything is about. Life.
My favorite characters were Hans and Rudy. They were the purest. From the start till the end their souls remained clean and their intentions good. Liesel and Rosa are strong characters as well. In my opinion, the biggest character development was in Rosa.
The film shows us war,love, hate, love for hate, life and death.
Although being a war film, it's main concern is actually not the war, it's family, it's hate and how to love with all this hatred smirking around.
Hans introduces a whole new world to Liesel – reading and writing. He crosses a line, the line in that time he wasn't supposed to cross. Reading was like a forbidden fruit at that time and place. Liesel escaped the daily grind in the world that her books give her.
I cannot pass on the character of Max. A Jew running, hiding from the Nazis's in the basement. He's one of Liesels friends and she is his only one. Every day she uses the new words she learned from her books to describe the outside world to him. After all these conversations Max sees something beautiful in her, in her words.
He gives her a new path – the blank page. Where she can write her own story, however she wants it to be. He gives her a smile and a place where to put a life.
I am truly happy with what this film gave me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.