By far the best film of 2008

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2009)

The Reader is challenging, saddening, and overall excellent. It gave me a feeling that no other film ever has. It mad me feel very sympathetic for the person you would normally consider the villain in a movie, a Nazi guard.
I must admit, at first I thought this movie contained way too much sex, but later on you realize that the scenes were necessary to define the relationship between the two main characters, Hanna and Michael.
And did I mention a plot twist and a performance by Kate Winslet that basically make the movie?
The Reader is must see and a future classic.