The Reader

A young student (Michael) who has an affair with an elder woman (Hanna),

visits her apartment and reads to her literature books,

everytime before they have sex.


The Reader is a film adaptation based on the German novel of the same name.

It tells a story of a lawyer who had an affair with an older woman, Hanna (portrayed by Kate Winslet) when he was a teenager.

Years later, Hanna is accused for commited war crimes as she was one of the SS guards who responsible to the death march.


Michael feels guilty for loving a war criminal, but then he found that Hanna has a secret that she considers worse than her Nazi past.

she is illiterate!

~she got no education and she don't know how to read or write~

Because of inferiority, and to protect her secret, Hanna willing to accept full responsibility for the death of 300Jews in the death march!!!

Kate Winslet gives us a stunning performance to show her character's frustration, panic, shame and innocence.

It is so sad and heartbreaking when you see Hanna is being accused by the judge,jury and other defendants.

She cannot speak something to defend herself.


But ofcourse, in the trial scene, it makes me think and think again....

what does "illiterate" has to do with commiting a war crime???

Burning 300Jews doesnt require your reading skill right?

Back to the human morality issue, is "education" that important to teach us about what is right or wrong???


Hanna think that she was just fullfilled her duty as a SS guards,

she joined Nazi because the party offered her a job.

For an innocence woman like her, who are not educated about history,moral,politics and war....

She didnt realize that killing 300Jews is a wrong thing to do....

She did it, she is guilty, only she is not.

What do you think?


The Reader is a great movie,

the best Kate Winslet's movie I have ever watched....

She won Oscar and Golden Globe awards for this movie!!!


~don't miss it~