The Reader Comments

  • Fidel 2022-03-22 09:01:28

    The film is good because of the complexity and fullness of the message it conveys. The "heinous" ex-Nazi complicit Hanna will help a strange boy she has never met, and will be moved to tears by literature and music, just like the collective epitome of pre-war Germans; and the biggest shame in her life is that she is illiterate. , and was willing to go to jail for keeping this secret. "We try to understand", this process is our search for the complexity of human nature/life, and also the beauty...

  • Raphael 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    Reading aloud for you is the desire for knowledge or whether you are illiterate, and whether you are in bed with you is indulging in lust or the frivolity of love. One of your proofs could save her from life in prison, but you didn't; she needed a hug on her farewell, but you didn't. When I heard the first syllable in the tape, I was panicking, I struggled to learn to read in "Woman with a Puppy", and when I wrote a letter, I wrote my name stroke by stroke. Those days are drifting away with the...

  • Luther 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    (9/10) The original intention of this film is good, but I really don't like the nude lenses in the film (even though it is important for character development). The second half of the movie is what I like. For the former fascists, "understanding" does not mean "reflection on their behalf". The rare thing about this film is that "understanding" and "denunciation" are carried out at the same...

  • Jess 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    Individual tragedy in mass violence, ignorance and barbarism feed each other, and awakening breeds confrontation. The display of human weakness is vivid and...

  • Imelda 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    The power of war is too strong, and the fate of individuals is like an ant being crushed by a...

  • Kenyon 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    The way they deal with their feelings is very special, but very real. Time also passed very real. The way of knowing is a bit abrupt; the ending is a bit...

  • Sidney 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    Been wondering what was the most shameful part about Hannah? In fact, it is not her identity as a Nazi concentration camp administrator, but that she is illiterate. This is shame within shame, and it dominates her life consciousness more fundamentally than sin recognized by the world. For a long time, I didn't understand why Hannah was reluctant to get out of prison and reconcile with the real world. She has learned so many words during her sentence and learned to write. She can start her life...

  • Florence 2022-03-21 09:01:33

    What Hannah cares about is whether she is educated, whether she is literate, whether she is found out about this secret that makes her feel inferior. What Mike and everyone else care about is whether she regrets her Nazi experience. I understand Hannah's daze, her life There has never been a process to teach her to recognize all of this, how can she be parachuted into recognition? I am Hannah and my mother is Mike. She thinks I am guilty. My crime is that I am afraid that I can't afford to buy...

  • Harley 2022-03-20 09:01:28

    Philosophy says that everything is contradictory and has two sides, people are...

  • Marques 2022-03-20 09:01:28

    The most shocking movie I've seen in the last two...

Extended Reading

The Reader quotes

  • Rose Mather: People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn't go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis. Please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.

  • Professor Rohl: Societies think they operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law.

    Professor Rohl: 8000 people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only 6 of murder.

    Professor Rohl: The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time.