The Reader

- 2 Eberts

Roger really liked this movie, giving it 3 1/2 stars but I can't recommend it. It was definitely worth seeing because Kate Winslet was tremendous but I just didn't get the story. Hanna is a monster. I never felt any sympathy for her. She had no trouble admitting she sent children who had read to her to their death or that she had kept a door locked as people burned to death but she couldn't admit that she was illiterate! She was a monster and Michael was a dope because he couldn't get over her. She molested him, ruined his life and he still feels that need to try to comfort her in her later years. It's hard to like a movie when you can't identify or sympathize with the two main characters.