The Reader takes place in Germany in the late 1950's. The story revolves around a 15-year-old boy named Michael Berg who has an affair with Hanna Schmitz, a woman twice his age. Decades after Hanna disappears and the affair ends, Michael, now a law student, finds himself sitting in on Hanna's war-crime trial. Hanna's dark past shocks Michael as he realizes that despite the love he had for her, he never really knew who she was.
Kate Winslet's performance in this film was undoubtedly Oscar-worthy. She absolutely nailed the dark, withdrawn and unremorseful personality of Hanna Schmitz. The movie, deep and at times, perverse, opens the audience's eyes to the idea that the Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. The entire German people were also affected by the evil that were the Nazi's.
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