Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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THE READER - HIGH VOICE ON MY LIPS


Berlin 1958. The fifteen-Michael Berg is walking road in the rain, when he suddenly felt unwell and took refuge in the lobby of a building. A woman in the building and it helps him back home. Recovered from Scarlet Fever, Michael goes to the woman's house to thank her: a young woman of about thirty francs, almost brusque manners. The woman seduces him almost immediately and the two begin an affair that Michael is completely absorbed. Hanna is the name of the woman, it begins to the pleasures of sex but in return he wants Michael to read something, every time a different book: a pleasure that seems to satisfy him more than anything else. They spend all summer together, until one day they disappeared, leaving a deep void in the soul that Michael will not be able longer to fill.

E '1966. Michael attended law school at the university. Together with the group of students and his law professor is invited to follow the trial of six former concentration camp guards at Auschwitz guilty of having caused the death of three hundred Jewish refugees in a church. Among the
Hanna is charged.
for Michael Schoch is one: the woman he loved desperately, so mysterious and tender, it shows a murderer. The boy follows the process and suddenly becomes aware of a truth that had always before their eyes when they were together but that was never realized. That truth Hanna could be saved from condemnation, but the resolve to desist from helping her do it, without realizing that they actually have more shame that he is illiterate you find that instead of being sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple murder.
Years pass. Michael is a lawyer, is divorced and has a great daughter who does not see often. Back to live as a bachelor, he finds the books she read to Hanna and decides to record the tapes in which she liked reading the text once, as if to re-establish a relationship, but denies the slightest contact with her.
Hanna begins to live, thanks to the tapes, began learning to read and write alone, in solitude of his cell. This strange relationship lasts for a few years until it comes time for Hanna to leave the prison. The Director of the Institute contact Michael that the organizations a life outside, because they have no one to turn to. Michael reluctantly accepts a while and finally decided to meet her after thirty years. This is getting old and off, but you do not find any sign of repentance, neither for him nor for the crime committed when he was wounded boy. Hanna realizes that nothing will ever be and that his life is truly over, but not betraying the pride of all time, will once again herself to decide his fate ...

THE FILM
Based on the novel of the 1995 Bernhard Schlink , "Der Vorleser ''(literally, the reader, who sees), The Reader - A loud is directed by British filmmaker Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours).
Released in 2008, the film caused quite a few discussions about whether to associate a hot topic again as the Holocaust story to a purely erotic and titillating, even attempting to give a justification to ' attitude of some marginal figures of Nazism and concentration camps.
criticism as unjustified in my opinion the film does not try neither to justify nor to condemn the character of Hanna Schmitz, merely to tell of his life, that after the war, in a normal living situation dealing with a guy who could be his son and that she instead makes her lover, but not for sheer perversity, but because it sees him as a means, a vehicle to exit a condition that makes her feel inferior to others, without becoming a hero or a holy martyr.
In the first part of the film we witness the birth of this love between two people different from each other and share two faces: the adolescent ardor in the unbridled passion of a boy struggling with the first sexual experiences and mature and conscious sensuality of an adult woman struggling with a man not a man that makes her feel beautiful and good, why not contemplate deeply in the soul but accepts it only for what she gives.
This report allows you to forget what it is and what it was, although Hanna never reveals his soul completely, in contrast to his body. His mania for cleaning the bathrooms, which also requires Michael to perfection in dress, hiding something that pricked into it but she tries to bury all the way, as if a small crease or a halo and could unmask condemn it. When you are promoted to the job and is offered a post office, Hanna is facing an abyss and runs away, still a time, leaving Michael distraught and confused, without any explanation.
Years later, in the second half of the film, when Michael finds himself in the courtroom as a defendant in a lawsuit against the Nazis, he feels within himself a sort of revulsion toward a being that had both and that he had betrayed so badly, especially after following the indictment in which he learns that Hanna was also reading the books by then deported to the camps selected for the gas chambers. Hanna, rather than deny, defends himself by claiming that all he had done was necessary, it was his job. Will bear the responsibility of having produced the report in which describes the death of Jewish refugees in a church during a bombing raid, though illiterate and unable to write his name. The biggest shame for her, what makes her feel more guilty, and illiteracy, and is not considered a Nazi. His pride, his dignity first, even if it means sacrificing his freedom.
Michael discovers this truth but you pull back, it helps to clear itself, because inside he wants her to pay, even for what he did.
Years pass, Michael grows up, marries Gertrude, a daughter, Julia, but fails to maintain a long relationship stable with women because they scored from his youthful experience with Hanna, as well as her marriage fails.
In the third part, the two protagonists find themselves in a single game, short but intense, where you will find now hopelessly far and away. Michael is still trying to trace a small failure in the determination of her, but Hanna remains firm in his convictions, despite everything. Until the end ...
Daldry directs with a steady hand and without virtuosity, offering a clear and straightforward film, touching on the important issues that would be easy to get carried away and fall into bad taste, especially in the first part of the film in which he describes the relationship with explicit images sex between Hanna and the "boy" as she calls it. Merit also a good cast of actors, first among all the Kate Winslet always good, here in a difficult role, which is exposed to body and soul with admirable ease.
Special mention also to newcomer David Kross , the true protagonist of the film, a revelation in every sense, who was able to bring to the screen the torments and the loss of a teenager struggling with the unusual initiation into adult life with a mature woman.


The director remains faithful to the novel and not trying to go in the rhetoric of the Holocaust, even if held in the background, he could ask for. Sticking to the facts, does not condemn nor downplaying the enormity of the crime committed, but as rightly said in one of the secondary characters: Why did you all pretended not to know? Why do not you have fired all when you knew? Everyone knew, but all were silent ... , referring to the presence of concentration camps in Germany.
seventy years have passed from the Holocaust, it's just not forget, but The Reader is not a film about the Holocaust nor boasts of it. It 's the story of a boy and his training, a man troubled and disillusioned too early mankind, played by Hanna Schmitz, illiterate victim of his time.
Kate Winslet said: "This is not a story about forgiveness or reconciliation. It is a story about repentance and how ever you do not choose who you love"
A movie not great, yet elegantly noteworthy.

THE CAST
Kate Winslet is Hanna Schmitz
Rude, awkward and lonely, working as a conductress on the line for trams in Berlin. The relationship with the young Michael was born in a natural and free, day by day. Winslet plays the character with ease, also facing very explicit nudity while not having a perfect body. Chosen as Kidman's acting for this part, I think the role fits very well, although I think he did better in the past. A well-deserved Oscar.


David Kross Michael Berg is a young
Quindicenne sluggish and clumsy, as required by his age, finds life in the arms of Hanna, a woman who will always remain his existence even after three decades. The German debutant actor had to wait to make the legal age to be able to interpret the erotic scenes with Winslet role certainly not easy but it has been able to handle with great professionalism. The real discovery of the film, interpretation very convincing and sincere, a true hero.



Ralph Fiennes is great by Michael
Ralph Fiennes is cut a few scenes, especially the ending of the film, playing a grown-up and disillusioned with Michael Berg, a failed marriage behind him and an inner turmoil that still fails to eradicate. Will he get rid of his bitterness after seeing Hanna for the last time, when she no longer be a presence in his soul destroyed. Interpretation
infallible as ever.




Before seeing the film in question I wanted to read Schlink's novel to savor the best story and characters, with nuances that are sometimes not expressed in images, as opposed to literary language. Stephen Daldry has stuck pretty faithfully to the book, leaving out secondary episodes that nevertheless did not affect the fluidity of the plot, rather increased emphasis on the psychology of the characters while maintaining the essential and lean style that also characterizes the novel.
It 's a film packed very well but not overly excited, not involved enough viewer, as if it raised a certain distance between the story and the public, or at least that was my impression. Despite
the impeccable acting of the actors seems to be missing something, maybe a little bit of soul, perhaps a little more emotional heat, I do not know.
The fact that The Reader a movie is not great in terms of film, but which has received a response from the public and lots of prizes, especially the Winslet, such as to change his mind and groped by a visual approach.
Indeed, the film deserves, but it's like not to leave anything in the end, despite the final message is interesting and sensual scenes that could start to attract even the most discerning palates. All in all, the book leaves the same taste in mouth and Daldry was not possible to do more. Recommended for
those who like unusual stories, intimate and elegant film, made up of actors and intense drama.
Not recommended for those who do not like these kinds of stories and regrets ...





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