We are all innocent

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2010)

Fancy a heartbreak? Watch this film.
Michael is a successful middle-aged lawyer with a restless personal life. He remembers his teenage youth when he met and had a short but passionate affair with his first love - a simple older woman who was living an orderly, dutiful but reclusive life. The age difference could be disturbing to some, but I think the woman being full of repressed feelings and individuality, she was on a similar emotional level as our teenage boy and used her sexual energy to experience some freedom through ecstasy.
For pretty obvious reasons (to the viewer), she asks Michael to read books to her out loud. She is so keen to keep this particular reason a secret that she even causes great harm to herself protecting it.
I know I'm talking in sign language here, but don't wanna spoil the story. So I'll end by saying that it really is worth watching. A tale about how sometimes doing your 'duty' for the lunatic people that run your country will be considered evil by later generations. A tale about a good man's inability to empathise and forgive. A tale about a good woman having her heart broken - not by the generation that had no mercy on her, but by the man that she had grown to believe in.