"The Reader"

[Sky Dancer]

I just saw this movie yesterday. It was one of the most intense and disturbing experiences of my cinema history.

I would love to discuss it with someone, but I doubt this forum is the place to do that.

 

[Diuretic]

Why not ?--every holocaust movie receives some obligatory award.
Gotta remind everyone to feel guilty. Can anyone else see that overplaying the holocaust will backfire ?

What about movies about WW2, or Viet Nam? You feel the same about them too?

depends. if john wayne's in them, hell no!

My dad used to say that since John Wayne won everything then why did he (dad) go to war?

 

[Diuretic]

It's not exactly a Holocaust/Shoah film but it's not subject to revisionism. Kanal, the story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, I saw it when I was a kid back in the late 1950s and I've never forgotten it. I don't know if it's available now but it's instructive viewing.

Kanal (1957)

I haven't seen The Reader, but the review causes me to ask, why do we ask actors questions about things in which they have no particular expertise? The ability to memorise a script and portray a character, however skilful it may be, doesn't automatically endow someone with knowledge.

 

[Sky Dancer]

I would still like to discuss this film with anyone who may have seen it. I found the story disturbing on so many levels.