story flashes back to Michael as a 15-year-old boy (David Krause ), one day he vomited in front of an apartment building on his way home from school due to physical discomfort. Hannah Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a middle-aged woman living here, took care of him in time and sent him home. . He was recuperating at home after being diagnosed with scarlet fever. Three months later, the recovered Michael brought a bouquet of flowers to thank Hannah. Michael peeks at Hannah who is changing, triggering hormones. Later, Hannah seduces him ("You're wearing pants in the shower?") to have sex with him. After that, love unfolds. Hannah likes to have Michael read books for him, she advises Michael, read the story first, then have sex. And just like that, they started a passionate relationship. And Michael's personality has gradually changed from yin to bright, two empty men and women indulge in a happy sexual relationship at the same time.. love.
However, "listen to read" seems to be more like Hannah's beloved lover, especially Chekhov, Dickens, Hemingway, Mark Twain, Homer's literary masterpieces, and sometimes she also listens to "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and An appetizer like The Adventures of Tintin. Michael's voice, Hannah's imagination, echoed in this wonderful world of two people. And Michael is also very obsessed with the reward after reading "Making Love".
But the good times didn't last long, and it didn't take long for Hannah to disappear suddenly, and this disappearance lasted for many years. In 1966, Michael, already a law student, attended the trial of war criminals at Auschwitz with law professors and classmates when he suddenly discovered that Hannah was five war criminals accused of participating in the murder of Jews. It turned out that she suddenly resigned from Siemens and became a guard at Auschwitz. In 1944, when the concentration camp was bombed by the Allied forces, she and the other four female guards did not About 300 Jewish prisoners were killed when the gates of the camp were opened, with only a mother and daughter surviving.
But Hannah, unlike the other defendants, was asked why she had taken part in the horrific crimes of the Nazi Party, and she replied, "It's my job." She didn't think she was wrong, she was just a worker on command , perform their own work. Hannah herself is a carefree woman, her character has led to her fate, and she has chosen the wrong job herself, she is not a bad person, she just made wrong choices, unable to distinguish them. Her right or wrong cannot be determined by the law, so she can only judge people on things. So when faced with the judge's question, she also questioned the judge: "What would you do?" The messy philosophical thinking caused a lot of deviation between cognition and law, just as Heidegger understood Nietzsche's.
Since Hannah's true statement was inconsistent with the lies of the other four colleagues, the colleagues decided to identify the joint agreement as written by Hannah alone, and put all the collective guilt on Hannah alone. When the judge asked to check the handwriting, Hannah refused, tacitly acknowledging the crime. At this time, Michael, who was listening to the trial, suddenly realized based on his previous memory (listening to reading aloud and not reading the recipe when ordering food): Hannah is illiterate - she can't read or write, she is afraid of making a fool of herself, so she has been in front of anyone for many years They are all hiding this and do not want to reveal their secret. Hannah's illiteracy meant she was incapable of writing a written report, a fact she declined to mention, a fact she believed was a greater shame than being convicted of a war criminal. Although Michael was aware of this and had the ability to help Hannah, he didn't take action for ethical reasons (his classmates hated Hannah so much that he wanted to shoot her), so he didn't take this This information could have avoided Hannah's life sentence.
The script jumps and switches the adult Michael (played by Ralph Fiennes) several times, enriching the character and story. In the late 1970s, the grown-up Michael tried to reconnect with Hannah in some way after various failures (marriage broke down and his mother had become numb to him), but he never failed to meet Hannah. Instead, the books that Hannah had recited in the early years were recorded on tape and mailed to Hannah through a tape recorder - this is more like a love letter between the two. Hannah's monotonous prison life also became interesting, and these tapes gradually became Hannah's own little library. Hannah also learned to read by listening to Michael's tapes while locating a library book - Chekhov's Woman with a Dog. She wrote Michael a text message with the sender's address, but Michael backed off a bit. In the end, when Hannah could be released, Michael, the only person Hannah knew, was able to meet. Hannah, who had expressed friendship many years ago, was treated indifferently by Michael. Of course, Michael's performance was very reasonable. Come here, he no longer knows how to face the emotion of the past.
There could have been a good ending, but it was embarrassing because of Hannah's suicide at the end. The love poems written by Michael when he was young had promised Hannah "one day I will read it for you", but at this moment, everything turned into nothingness. Michael could only take the instructions in Hannah's last words to relieve Hannah's guilt over the years, and help her hand over the money she accumulated in prison to the little girl who survived the fire. For the first time, he also opened up to others about his past and Hannah's untold secrets.
Kate Winslet put on a captivating performance, her performance was absolutely tense. The grasp of character, emotional fluctuations, and personal emotions make her play with ease, and she is becoming an actress like Meryl Streep! The two famous directors Sidney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, who died of illness as the film's producers immediately before the film's completion, will surely know it, and they have produced a classic film!
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