Very moving!

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2014)

This movie is about dedication and commitment above all else!
What starts off with a bit of romance with a young man that was reading to her when she returned home to work, it is later revealed that she has a deeply dark secret. She accepts a punishment for something that she didn't do because her pride couldn't admit another secret that she had her entire life.
She paid the price in more ways than one. He continued his commitment to read to her throughout her prison years until he started being confused by her letters.
While it was slow at the beginning, it picked up when things began to be put together. The movie was well structured and kept the air of secrecy very tight lipped until it was later revealed - definitely representing how very hard it was to keep such embedded secrets for so long.
The social (in)justice aspect of this movie is that the secrets she held stole her opportunity to live her life. Had she had the opportunity to live her life otherwise by making different choices, would it/could it have been very different for her? Could she have gone against the authorities to do things that she knew were morally wrong? Would she, though, have met the reader (because it was the reader that had comforted her and made her work surreal? What do you think?