Unbelievable Tale of Sturm and Drang

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 2009)

While I was eager as I was to see The Reader, I was completely disappointed in this improbable and sentimental story. While I have not doubt that a lonely woman would leap into bed with this handsome young man, I found it highly unlikely that she would be overjoyed having The Illiad read to her. What is she, a scholar? I am well-educated and would be bored to death by The Illiad.Without revealing anything, I would say that was just one of the many absurdities in this totally unbelievable film. Except for the sex, it was impossible to understand anybody's motives for anything they did, or more to the point, did not do. While the critics praised this film and the Academy gave Kate a well-deserved Oscar, I feel that is a laughable film filled with unlikely characters being ever-so solemn and tormented based on a single premise that is completely unlikely.