Too much too soon

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2009)

THE READER is an emotionally moving story of a boy who has an affair with an older woman. It takes place in WW11 Geramny. What makes this particular love affair so powerful are the players. The boy is too young to handle it's intensity. The woman is irresponsible in her effect she will eventually have on his entire life. In short her actions and their consequences ruin both their lives.
Viewers will feel for the boy as he becomes a man and as he proceeds to be effected by his former lover long after they have parted. They will feel even more as the man comes to term with his life remembering his former lover and her terrible actions.
In this film, questions are raised that cannot be answered easily. Guilt is a true thing in this story. The aftermath of emotional scars is more the focus of this story. People carry with them the emotions throughout their lives. People in the surrounding circumstances of war and it's criminals and it's victims are depicted.
Kudos go to Kate Winslet, Ralph Finnes and David Gross. I