This glorifies nazi's!

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2009)

I give a lot away so you might want to read the next one.
I heard great things about this from some friends... then after viewing: realized that my friends are a little antisemitic. Here's a summarized premise: A young law student runs into a forty something year old sometime after the Holocaust. They fall in love. He finds out that she's illiterate so he starts to read to her. Fast forward a bit, she's on trial...responsible for over 300 deaths during the Holocaust. At the ending of the trail the young law student weeps when his lover is sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment. The worst part of this scene is that the mood attempts to actually try and get the viewer to feel for this illiterate nazi! Years go by and she is released from prison... yeah, they apparently just let some of them free after awhile. Anyways she can read now: how great for her... who cares she's a freaking nazi! The fact that there was a movie created to get people to feel something for these people who were truly scum of the earth is repulsive. It attempts to also send a message that "reading is good." However, that is just a shelled message to promote biased opinions in favor of nazi's, explaining that they had feelings and were people. Do you really care if some nazi learned to read while she was in jail? Did I mention that she had the Jews read to her and then she would send them off to die? The only good parts about this movie were the reminders that when nazi's were imprisoned they too were given numbers... and that many of them took their own lives because they weren't strong enough in the end to live with what they did. Too bad they weren't all put in gas chambers instead so that the world today could call it a little poetic justice. If this still sounds interesting than watch the stupid thing. Next you can give ten stars to the one about the child molesting blind man