The Reader

On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, I went to see the movie The Reader. This movie features Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes.

The movie is about Michael Berg, played by David Kross when he was a young man, and Ralph Fiennes during the later parts of the movie. Berg has an affair with Hanna Schmidt, played by Winslet, who is a woman twice his age. Their affair finishes, and it ends with Hanna leaving her apartment in a huff.

Later, we discover that Berg pursues a career in law and he re-encounters his lost love at a trial where she has been accused of a war crime.

We develop from there. This is truly a well acted film. Certainly, Winslet stole the show, and definitely deserved her Oscar, but the other actors also gave their characters a lot of depth. I believe that the director for this film should have won best director at the Oscars, not the one from Slumdog Millionaire.