Hannah is a strong woman. She has full breasts, round buttocks, strong legs, and she has all the bodybuilding that a woman should have, but these are not her charms. When Mi Xia met her for the first time, she was suffering from jaundice, crouching under the door and vomiting. The gloomy weather seemed to crush everything on the street into iron blocks. At this moment, Hannah hurried past, and the huge snow flakes brushed the ends of her hair, and her face showed cold lines. But it is beautiful and touching enough, as if there is a kind of aura that slams into your soul and makes you amazed. It's a beauty that keeps hitting. The eyes are stern, look straight into your eyes, confidently, without scruples.
Hannah loosened her hand, and the sky blue bath towel fell to the ground. She and Misha met naked, with her breasts against his back and her belly against his buttocks: "That's why you came back?" She seduced him, but It also transformed him into a man. Maybe he was only regarded as a sturdy and immature boy in a tired and boring life, a snack bestowed by God. But what kind of love doesn't start without a reason? Her strength, weight, and sturdiness have shaped a brand new Misha. If I hadn't met Hannah, there would be no such excellent Misha. Just like without Hannah's departure, there will be no adult Misha in the future, Misha who is difficult to get along with, Misha who does not last long in love, Misha who has lost faith in religion and law, ruthless and extremely sensitive Mixed Misha.
Hannah did not confess that she was illiterate, so she was severely sentenced. In addition to repenting for the crime, her mentality also stemmed from this strong mentality, right? She is strong and powerful, but she is ashamed of her illiteracy, which leads to the wrong trajectory of life time and time again. Illiteracy is a shortcoming in her life and an indescribable mole in her heart. She was about to be promoted as a foreman at Siemens, so she chose to leave and signed up to become a female SS guard. After the war, she worked as a tram conductor. She performed well and wanted to be promoted. She also chose to leave. The difference was that she also lost Misha this time, which had an irreversible impact on Misha's life. The shame of being illiterate has become her nightmare again and again. In the end, in court, because of his unwillingness to confess that he was illiterate, he spent the rest of his life in prison.
Misha met Hannah again, already in court. At that time, Misha was a law student, and Hannah was a middle-aged woman. As the trial person, her face was pale and extremely nervous. She was terrified, but still tried to maintain her dignity. She was illiterate and did not understand what content was good for her and what was harmful to her. She stood with her shoulders on her shoulders, admitting to what she had done, and to what did not belong to her and Unexplainable issues are hard to resolve, but they seem so pale in the face of the judge's recourse and the blame of other female guards. Her face was full of tension and puzzlement, her eyes were deeply sunken, her words were unsatisfactory, and she forced herself to remain calm.
Her frankness is due to her trust in rules and truth, but she doesn't know how to shirk guilt. So she was sentenced to the heaviest, life imprisonment. On the morning of the sentencing, she was in a single room in the detention center, facing a simple vanity mirror. Due to the age, the mirror is half blurred. She loves cleanliness. Even if she lived in a small apartment, she had to take a bath every day. The summer that she dated Misha, she always asked Misha to read a paragraph to her first, then took a bath, lusted in the shower, had sex in the twilight, and took a nap until Misha left. Now, Hannah stared at the vanity mirror on the blurry side for a long time, and suddenly picked up the towel, kneaded it into a ball, wiped the back of her neck and arms, and then put on a white shirt, tie, black suit, and walked to the seat of the trial with a straight waist , silent, hurt, puzzled, desperate, closed in a pair of eyes.
Misha doesn't love Hannah anymore. He has grown up and is no longer a little boy. From graduation and work, to getting married and having children, to getting divorced, to changing girlfriends, life is like a movie film, turning it over and over. Hannah's face was blurred, leaving only tough curves, retreating into the dark shadows of her mind. But he may know that in his boyhood, Hannah's appearance and departure in his life have filtered his spiritual world, which is also the source of his happiness or misfortune in his life. Just as he didn't find Hannah's feeling in every girlfriend, his lust for Hannah was long and hard to pick up.
One day, in the dimly lit study, Misha was sorting out old books and suddenly found the "Odyssey" in her youth. She remembered some things she had done with Hannah, and there was a smile on her face that she hadn't seen in a long time. Very light, only the cheeks trembled, but the whole face stretched and the whole heart was relieved. So he turned on the light and read aloud irresistibly, from "The Odyssey" to "The Woman with the Puppy," the chapters he had read for Hannah, it seemed the whole room had come to life, and the world had been read aloud by him sound.
Hannah in the prison is already white-haired. Suddenly one day, she received a parcel from Misha, which was full of the reading tapes he recorded. She was happy, disappointed, she found the courage to live again. She checked the tape and struggled to find the words in the book with her pen, learning to write bit by bit. She still loves Misha, because in her life, only Misha is left.
Misha really can't be called in love with Hannah. He just read aloud when he couldn't sleep at night, to recall the time he spent with Hannah, and his reflections on his future marriage, daughter, and life. He was immersed in reading aloud. Pick up his hair. He only wanted to keep a certain distance from Hannah, never visited her once, never wrote to Hannah. Hannah wrote him her first letter, and countless others, in childish handwriting. He didn't answer a single one.
"It's over, isn't it?" Hannah and Misha met for the third time on the eve of her release from prison. She looked at him eagerly, and held out her hand tremblingly. He stretched out his hand and shook it, and couldn't help letting it go, her eyes suddenly despaired. "It's over, isn't it?" Hannah hanged herself the morning she was released.
Kate Winslet is no longer the innocent girl from "Titanic". With this "Life and Death Reading" won the Oscar for best actress well deserved. Or she has been nominated several times, but she is destined to win the championship with this film. This film will embody her acting skills and face to become another classic in the history of film. Its classic colors are enough to surpass "Long Dream of Covered Bridge" and comparable to "Blue Bridge of Soul Broken". When everyone gradually forgets this Oscar's best film "Slumdog Millionaire", they will definitely remember this "Life and Death Reading". However, there are quite a few opinions on the Chinese translation of the title "The Reader" as "reading life and death", why can't it be literally translated as "reader"?
I always remember Hannah and Misha going out on Easter, passing a country church, and the holy singing of the choir came from inside. She secretly, alone, crept in, the bright sunlight hit her face, she burst into tears, a kind of unstoppable inner grief. She cried, but smiled again, a smile full of tears, a smile that was unconsciously moved by this beauty.
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