Very Good and Informative Movie..

Rating: 9/10 (28 April 2009)

When I first watched The Reader, I said, "Here we go again, another World War 2 movie rather to bash Germans and the Nazis". How I was wrong, this movie was speechless. By sides the fact that a young boy was "dating" a woman twice his age, The Reader shows what Germany was like after World War 2 and what people did to survive. Hanna, the young boy's lover, was a Nazi guard for Aushwitz and was put on trail for war crimes. There's a problem though, Hanna can't ride or write. She couldn't do other jobs because that would require reading and writing so she becomes a guard. I like this part of the movie because it showed that not everyone who was a Nazi joined because they hated everyone.
Another interesting point in the movie was the war crime trials. Guards were sentenced two, three, four years while the higher ranks got the death penalty. Hanna, ashamed that she couldn't read and write, she allowed the other guards to blame her for the hundred of deaths under her control. Sadly, she was given life in prison. I've learned a lot from this movie, and I would suggest having some tissues set aside for the tears.