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  • Kate Winslet is great in this movie!!!!she is one of the best actresses of our generation..whatever thing she does,she does in the most original way!!!

  • Such a moving film , acted out well by an incredibale cast .

  • This woman thought she was smart as fuck she was a fucking clown...

  • My favorite book 5 stars

  • IN EFFECT HERE, KATE WINSLETT PLAYS THE PART OF A PEADOPHILE AS IN REALITY IT IS QUITE RIGHTLY, IMMORAL AND ILLEGAL..

  • @SaveSiamPlease

    Haha, sorry mate, but you're an idiot who didn't get the message of this movie.

  • meritevolisssimooooooooo

    very good ;)))

  • I still can't believe the end of this book/film. It's so sad...

  • One of the most depressing films I have ever seen. Bravo

  • Aw :D

  • is there a reason why i got an erection from watching this?

  • Kate Winslets scene listening to the choir of children,in the small church! Her face did more in terms of acting,in those few moments than I can remember over many years watching the world of cinema.

  • Is it weird to think they make a good couple?

  • um dos melhores films que eu ja vi, se não for o melhor !!

  • a lot of sex scenes in this movie with kate..

  • @darksideXXXXX

    Then, it is a half literature and half XXXXX moive.

    I like it.

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  • whats the name of the province they go to on their hollidays¿?

  • I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Kate Winslet is the greatest actor of our time. Apologies to Ben Kingsley.

  • The book was the worst thing I've read in a long time.

    Why do people give Oprah's opinion of books such credence?

  • i want to watch this so bad, but they took off all those movie sites and now i cant watch it :(

  • can someone tell me the moral of the movie?

  • @rakitipakiti

    That Nazis should be unrepentant?

  • @beowulven a very smart old man told me that it was that justice does not come without literacy. or something does not come without literacy i cant remember well but do you agree?

  • @rakitipakiti

    If I understand correctly I think it makes great sense. Do you think he meant literal "literacy" (ability to read & write) or some kind of human or spiritual literacy (such as living by the Golden Rule or treating those who are unlike us with respect)?

    I like to think that basic human values (a sort of "language of life") are held by all people, regardless of the ability to retain knowledge. But my parents were lefties, so...

  • I loved this movie, this is what cinema is supposed to be about: making you think and truely moving you. I would rather watch this then some other garbage like "27 Dresses" etc. Anyway, I believe Hanna was suffering from Post tramatic syndrome as well as guilt. You agree??

  • In my opinion is no a good movie at all.. and but in any case the award would be for the young actor that makes it much better. Kate made a boring and dull performance .. I do not see the point ..

    As for the script of the movie .. is rather vulgar, and more of the same. One more excuse to go into the boring topic of the Nazis.

    We all know how finish a nazi, in a U.S. pro semite film script. PLEASE!!!!

  • kate winslet was friggin INCREDIBLE in this movie.

  • just amazing awesome movie =(

    wonderful

  • @cigolone1 dman this is not about jewish u ar so retarded

  • @Tatasama Yes, yes I am retarded as much as Sydney Pollack and the Owners of The Weinstein Company are not Jewish.

    Oh what the hell am I wasting time explaining things... The truth is that you DON'T WANT to understand. For most people, the truth is boring and it hurts.

  • @cigolone1 Ha the truth is that the main point of this movie is only understood by smart and sensitive people who are always minority and clearly u are not included in that group. Saying that this movie is about holocaust-jewish-propaganda and that it "makes you feel guilty" only shows your poor level and such a bad taste in comprehension. Sorry for you actually.

  • historically the jews always implement their major frauds during chaotic times while the masses are disheveled such as 1945. In 1939 the author William Dudley Pelley published "The 45 Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Jews With the Answers by Pelley" which detailed how the number of jews in America skyrocketed from 4 million to 12 million during the 1930s. Nearly all of the european jews were deported to America or Palestine before WW2 even began. The holocaust story is outright fraud.

  • MY FAVOURITE FILM. The most powerful perfomance of Kate Winslet.

  • i didnt understand,if she hadnt committed those crimes as she was illiterate then why did she opt for being guilty?

  • Hanna was deeply ashamed of her illiteracy and would rather confess to a crime than reveal to other people that she cannot read or write. Her illiteracy is supposed to be symbolic of something deeper in the story.

  • If the academy had been fair I think she should have already won 3 oscars...this one, for little children and for eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

  • Kate Winslet was great. Although personally I think she was better in Revolutionary Road and should've at least been nominated for an Oscar.

  • i thought that was cute. He didn't make a fight, but proved the lady wrong with his actions. HA <3

  • Ha! Thats funny! Your mother.

  • @xARMINIUSx this movie is not about that!

    u haf misinterpreted it. it is trying to show us the perspective many would not take in looking at the holocausts. thru hanna, we see ourselves actually empathizing them. ppl who purely do what they are assigned to do. "we are guards. we are supposed to guard them."

  • I understand, but look when they ask her those questions and they reply again: we did our duty, our job , see the movie nurnberg, same thing.

  • @xARMINIUSx somehow that seem really beautiful to me. sometimes its not juz abt how much emotion or sympathy we have towards someone, but the spirit of purely doing our duty. In that very situation, tat was perhaps the best choice of achieving that...

    i understand how u feel abt this, juz trying to ask u to see things not in a moral point of view sometimes. cos that often restricts our philosophical understanding of how human being work.

  • what is the movie nurnberg?

  • This movie is so moving. It should have won best picture at the Oscars. Thank God Kate won best actress. If her performance in this didn't do it I don't know what would.

  • She's SUPPORTING in this movie.

  • shes the leading she and the boy

  • She has 30-40 minutes on screen, therefore she is SUPPORTING.

  • but the storys about her all the tim

  • Well she did something right in order to win the Oscar.

  • @slskid the book was WAAAAAAAY better. read it

  • Oh I love this movie. Kate winslet is stunning simply stunning.

  • The movie is interesting. I would like to know why the "kid" never made a contact with Hanna -face to face or by letter- Whas he ashamed of his affair with her? Was he annoyed with her because She left without saying gob bye? and why He did not help her at the trial.

  • in the book, he says that he was excited when he got the letter.

  • I think he would want to remember her as she was with him prior to the trial. Maybe confronting her would have been too difficult for him to handle.

  • It was more like he couldnt face her without feeling that she had betrayed him,as much as he had,in his own mind.And he didnt help her at the trial cause he could see she didnt want her secret to be revealed,and rather be in jail than do so.

  • @hotjames808 u r right...

    but the movie adapted it slightly different from the book. michael is supposed to be kinda cold towards her during the trail almost detached of feelings. but i think the screenplay writer wanted more connection of the character to the audience and hence giving him more emotions during the trail.

  • I did not find they were so detached during the trip (in the book.) He seemed so elated to be in a world where they could be open and public about their relationship. He loved to follow her, he fretted about her dress getting caught in the spokes of her bicycle, and he imagined they would make love all night, but regretted they were too exhausted from riding all day long.

  • haha... i meant the court trial...

  • A wonderful movie indeed, one of the best ever made. And I honestly think that making love to a much younger guy is very, very exciting. Something all women in their thirties should actually do. The book is just as amazing as the movie itself. A very well told story.

  • Yes I agree

  • all i got to say is that michael aka david kross is so amazingly cute.

  • shayshalom tu as écris le commentaires de loin le plus débile que je n'ai jamais lu sur internet.

  • This is a wonderful movie....

  • The movie portraites the GERMAN society as it is - sick-twisted-nimphomaniac- who feels guilty n pass on the outrageous guilt turning it into artistic-sick memory - well done NAZIS

  • SHAYSHALOM....este film muestra un ser sano, transparente que como Alemana cumplio con su deber.

    Me molesto en cambio la judia que viviendo lujosamente en NY..no supo aceptar su perdon. A pesar de todo el daño que los judios hacen al mundo, jamas reflexionan en sus errores.

  • Me molesto en neo-nazi espanios como tu ke ablas como estupidas criminals - el judios ke tu odias es todo to saves - hesus, einstein, freud, colombus, madonna, dylan, marks, gate, spilberg - all judios - te odias todo? jo meodio tu MALDITA

  • Yo no generalizo. judio burro ignorante!!!dylan se hizo catolico, a jesus lo mataron uds. Marks nunca los quiso, Madonna paractica esa boludez de uds por snob, spillberg se avergonzo durante mucho tiempo de ser judio jajajaj. uds son MATA NENES PALESTINOS!!!!

  • dylan es Robert Chimerman - an ortodox jew, Madonna converted n spilberg is dead jew (mertu jedeo) estas estupita kerida armana - GO TO WIKIPEDIA or GOOGLE n check fool girl!

  • pero tu - from wikipedia:

    1. Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) ...NOW IS apart of close-knit Jewish community.

    2. Karl Marx -...considered himself both of ethnically Jewish n Culture.

    3. Jesus - .. was a Jew who was regarded as a teacher and healer...

  • ,Mentiras !!!judio burro.

    ninguno de los tres, acordo con el pensamiento arrogante del judio invasor.

    judios MATA NENES

  • No sabes hablar espanol, pero entiendo lo que estas tratando de decir. Detesto todo tipo de intolerancia. El bastardo de Hitler, espero que se este quemando en el infierno. Que no se rumoraba que el tambien llevaba sangre judia?

  • And I speak English too.

  • Se te olvida que mas de 6 millones de judios fueron masacrados? Como si eso no fuera poco.

  • y eso que tiene que ver???. Los japoneses perdieron mas gente y supieron perdonar. Los mismos Alemanes vieron su patria destruida y siquieron adelante sin eternos lamentos.

  • Pensarias diferente si fueras judio.

  • si fuera un judio objetivo y analizara la historia de mi pueblo, me daria cuenta de que tambien se cometieron graves errores y que se estan repitiendo con Palestina,

  • Palestina es tierra de judios, y aunque no apruebo la violencia de cualquier pueblo que sea, eso es Biblico. Claro que en un mundo ideal, todos nos dariamos la mano, y no habrian guerras.

  • MI EPIDERMIS DESGASTADA POR TANTAS BATALLAS PERDIDAS MIS NEURONAS HABITADAS POR TANTO CONOCIMIENTO INUTIL Y SUBVERSIVO Y MI ALMA ICONOCLASTA PROCLAMAN SOLEMNEMENTE; QUERERTE SIN AMBIGUEDADES, SIN CODIGOS SECRETOS, SIN NOSTALGIAS; Y SIN CLAUSULAS OCULTAS. ES UNA DECLARACION INGENUA, TRANSPARENTE , Y SIMPLE TE QUIERO jed
  • the look on kates face was like "shit. these kids are the same age as the guy im dating"

  • lmao

  • have u seen the movie? her look wasnt representing that, she was trying to say that even the kids can read but she cudnt.

  • yeah when i watch that clip again,i realise ur right lol

  • i just finished sawing it. A beautiful yet sad movie. I cried. I needed to see this movie. it did so much for me.

    Does anyone know a movie just like this?please tell me.

  • I haven't seen it yet but i'm about to tonight. I heard alot about it though!

    You can download a movie called "the hours" sad, complicated and confusing but i'm sure you will like it. 2002 production - Meryl streep, Nicole kidman and Julian moore.

  • watch zwartboek aka black book.

  • have u seen the movie END OF THE AFFAIR. i hope u will like it

  • it seems to be a good movie. good actors, good story. I will most definitely watch it. Thank you

    =D

  • ys u sud. really nice movie.

  • so u said that no people were prisoners lol u are such a retard i even know 2 survivors and holocaust was REAL ok.

  • I never said no people were prisoners...

  • i wanna see the reader with a happy ending version. this film is such a great film.. great act by the boy and kate winslett.

  • It can't have a happy ending.

    After all, Hanna was guitly and did not feel any remorse. She was an uneducated average Woman, but she knew she killed innocent.

    It just seemed as if killing innocents was legal at that time in German history.

    It might not have been illegal , but it was wrong.

    So why should she get away with it?

    She kind of runs away from her past, but she can only run, but never hide.

  • I love this part... it's funny.... that's what people get for assuming things...

  • i thought it was a good film, bit confusing but still :)

  • haha, you can say that again! God, this film sucked hairy ass monkeyballz! This scene is even more retarded in English than it is in German! I find it so fucking stupid to put everyone in English accents, if this is supposed to be taking place in Germany! Everyone knows that Germans have more in common with Americans than with the English! If you think this film is intellectual, you're clearly an intellectual lightweight. this film isn't even good enough to jerk off to!!!

  • Nace neutro. O vacio. Las experiencias lo llenan y su educacion y valores lo llevaran a ser alguien bueno o malo.

  • props for spelling paedophile correctly! don't forget about the fact that she's also a nazi. the dumbest scene in this shit-parade is by far the last, in which the father starts telling his daughter the story of his love-affair. what kind of a fuck-nut father would tell his daughter about how he used to bang a horny, ex concentration camp guard.

  • I cannot believe that they tried to lighten the story by allowing Michael to reveal the relationship to his daughter. That was not in the book (thankfully).

  • .... you didn't get the story at all...

    why did the father tell her daughter about his affair with the woman...

    The father tells his daughter about the affair he had with the woman because, it was the reason for why their father-to-daughter relationship was so cold. He could not get over the fact that the woman he loves had done all this terrible things in the past, and so instead of forgiving and moving on, he was trapped in the past and unable to focus on her daughter.

  • are you aware that it wasn't her daughter, but rather of a completely different woman?

  • Well, see how much guilt he must have felt even for only loving a woman he did not know was a guard?

    That is one of the key questions in that story: how much guilt does the "younger" German Generation feel and how much gult did the Holocaust Generation had.

    That is the key theme of this story.

    So you GOT a good point.

  • people shold stop being so dramatic

  • i dont mean to be ignorant.. but was this a true story!!!

    or it just had like a 4% true story...???

    I watch the movie yesterday...

  • haha why ignorant?

    no it aint true. its fictional

  • oh... thanks

    I kept reading the other comments..and they kept talking about the book, this and that.. and u know that most books are made after a real situation...

    I feel better know... since i watched the movie.. couldnt stop thinking about it.. ... if it happended for real.. jaja

  • its based on a book....what i dont know if is the book based in real facts? lol

  • This is based on a true story. The person that wrote the book, is actually the kid in the movie. All that the kid went through in the movie, the writer of the book went through in real life.

    ... can't believe he slept with such a mature woman with just 17 years of age... no? ;)

  • I know, ever since I saw the movie I couldnt stop thinking of whether if it was real or what..

    but it happens all the time.. people can fall in love no matter what age are they, is just that some people prevent that situation by not getting too involved.. but I just love the drama in this movie.. it made me cry all the time!!

    thanks for the answer..

  • He was actually 15 - at least that's what it says in the book - and she only thought that he was 17; of course he did not correct her :P

  • Lies it's not based on Berhard Schlink, him and Michael have things in common but it's not based on him and Michael is 15 not 17. He tell her he is 17, he lies...just like you.

  • its not based on the writer!? oh well... my stepdad must be lying then... and alright 15 or 17... what does it matter in relation with her age... huh?

    ...but u got a point... i lied

  • Hmm, it's okay...you should read the book, it guarantee it will remain in your top 10 books for the rest of your life.

  • alright... i'll make sure i read it then :)

  • Many critics seem to don't like this movie mainly because of the movie dealt with the Holocaust, child molestation, the fact that she seems to be more ashamed of herself being illiterate than war crimes and etc. But I don't think this film is not THAT shallow for serious movies and it doesn't ask you to feel sympathy for Nazi criminals. It just asks you how much your forgiveness can reach out in order to save yourself from feeling shameful about being innocent but also guilty of your past.

  • ...and everybody who made these up

  • Haha what do you mean by believers? There are photographs, video footage, physical evidence, survivors, confessors, participants, testimonials, memoirs.

    It happened.

  • im reading the book

  • Read the book first, it is distressing when you get into the boy and feel what he feels and becomes even more mindbogling when you realise what an internal dilemma and conflict of loyalties he was facing when he finally knew....

    Can any wrong be forgiven or can anybody have deep feelings for someone who has done wrong and ....

    can you separate both. A devils dilemma but I choose love ... despite all.

  • what is the book called?

  • The original book was called der vorleser from Bernhard Schlink. But it has been translated and in english it's called the reader. Just like the movie.

  • but in the book the kid reallly feels things for her, i mean he was in love >?

  • True, that is why the book is more tragic and gripping...

    Can anybody be blamed for loving someone?

  • anyone know where i can watch this movie online?

  • go buy the dvd

  • i went to blockbuster and rented it lol

  • if you had red the book, you wouldn't have said something like that !!!!!

  • Todas las escenas son estupendas, me encanta Kate Winslet desde que la vi en "Titanic" luego hubo años de ausencia, Hollywood la criticó porque según la industria "estaba gorda" pero que más da unos kilos de más o de menos, si su talento es el de un pedazo de actriz. Todo se lee en sus ojos y el joven actor que trabaja con ella, promete.

    Enfin una pelicula sencilla y que da gusto ver.

  • Poor girl...... she doesn't understand the words on the menu at all, even the kids sitting by can do so(with joy)

    It's a meaningful scene!

  • I agree. She is able to show that element of self-contempt that is carried by her inability to read

  • i loved this scene as well.. he was so in love with her.. my other favorite scene was when she was mad at him.. almost yeling.. and he shuts her up with some very passionate kissing!! haha rather hot... ahem....

  • beatiful

  • i love kate winslet

  • that's one of my fav scenes...don't know why - I just like it

  • watch it online here : xtshare. com/movie/viewfilm.php?Id=164&­view=The-Reader

  • I am happy you are questioning it, not claiming it. That makes you eligible to think it through. There are just too many factors that affected her decision, there is one whole life behind it. My recommendation is to watch the movie again. (at least that's what I will do) and literally drink up the beginning by heart, not by senses.

  • i agree with you this is a extraordinary film very psycologic, enigmatic, at first it seems to be simple but is not at all!! I have watched it twice and still get goosebumps with some scenes!! BRILLIANT performances!! One of the best ever! Kate definitely rules she is on my Fav actress list for sure!!!

  • it's really a fanstatic movie!

    but i think there are too sex scenes in the first part of the movie....XD

  • are you complaining about it?

  • Absolutely Brilliant movie

  • i agree best i have seen in awhile

  • i started to read the book today.

    I CANNOT STOP READING IT !

  • i have a question.... she was innocent she did not know how to write and read. so why she said that she wrote the report in the court?!!!

    was she just ashamed of not knowing how to read?!!!

  • I believe so. She was a proud woman and very strong, so I think she was kind of ashamed of not knowing how to read. I dont know any other reason.

  • what did you think of all the sex in the movie?

  • yes she was .. she would dead for her proud. she would never say: I can't read!!!

  • If that's the point of the movie, I promise not to ever express opinion on anything

  • yes

  • Because she is more ashamed of being an illiterate than being a Nazi war criminal.

  • please read the book to get a better understanding...she didn't sign up to be a nazi war criminal. she signed up to be a guard. she was just ignorant and uneducated. i'm curious to learn about her childhood. who were her parents and how was she raised?

  • of course u dont need to read to know that but if we judge according on that point of view then all the people, women and men of that area are as involved as this woman that was directly involved in that horrible situation. Everybody knew, some shut to survive. Some just saw the situation happen and decided to not do anything.

  • she deserved the oscar!!!!!!!!

  • I couldn't agree more.

  • no it wsa jjust acting.. he is at least 18

  • what an important scene.i didnt guess it. But my friend guessed it out at this point....

  • I liked this scene. It showed how she reacts to when faced with something to read... that confusion in her eyes, and that shame that she can't read like the boys... so riveting....

  • I love you david kross such a little h ottie!

  • I didn't realize at this scene, that she couldn't read at that point. Because they made it look like she was just uncomfortable in public, or something. It wasn't until the court scene, I had realized she was illiterate.

  • Same here! I thought she was just uncomfortable being seen in public with her very much younger lover. I didn't realize she was illiterate until the court scene either.

  • oh please i did realized about it when she asked him to order at the restaurant..She was reading the menu bckwards

  • I only knew because I'd read the book. But I doubt I would've guessed either.

  • i guessed out at this point

  • realy?

  • jajajaj

  • lol