Implausible Tedious Mess

Rating: 2/10 (2 September 2012)

Warning: Spoilers
I just do not get it. Apparently it is more shameful for the character Hanna to admit to being illiterate than to have been complicit in the murder of several hundred human beings. Are we supposed to feel sorry for Hanna? That poor little Nazi it wasn't her fault she didn't realise that torturing people was naughty because she couldn't read. Is that what it was about? Because that's what I took from it. The affair between Hanna and Michael also feels unbelievable to me. Hanna's character is colder than a snowman. Even without knowing she is a Nazi Michael would surely have guessed that there was something up with her. If he was just after sex then maybe it is a feasible pairing - a horny teenager and a physically pleasing older woman - I get that. However, despite Hanna's frosty disposition and anger management issues Michael bafflingly seems to care about her. None of it seems remotely plausible to me.