The Reader - Movie Review

The Reader (2008) is a movie based on the novel by the same by Bernhard Schlink in 1995.

The movie stars Kate Winslet in her Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG winning role as NAZI in WW-II with a hidden past but earlier as a seductive woman who goes on to have an affair with a boy half her age, Michael Berg played by German actor David Kross.

The two have an intimate affair that lasts only a summer and Michael begins to fall in love with Hanna (Winslet). The story takes a turn when Hanna suddenly vanishes. The two meet eachother after 8 years however in entirely different circumstances.

Hanna is on trial among several accused women in a case during WW-II as Hanna worked as an SS Guard. As the case continues, Michael (now a law student) finds it harder seeing her on the trial, also never meeting her there. As her case approaches a verdict, Michael comes to know she is innocent and now knows her secret, only he can't prove it and she herself doesn't want to.

Her secret was that she was illiterate and couldn't read and write.

The movies continues and goes through so much of deep emotions.

This movie was one of the best and hadn't Slumdog Millionaire been released that year, the Oscar would have gone to The Reader!

In this movie, Kate Winslet gives her most down-to-earth and most spectacular performance, so does David Kross and Ralph Fiennes. This movie is a bit slow but it is beautiful!

My ratings: 9/10

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I AM NUMBER FOUR

A brief action sequence that opens the movie establishes the fact that a handful of good aliens from the doomed planet of Lorien are being hunted on Earth by villainous ones called Mogadorians. These baddies are eliminating nine good Loriens in numerical order; Number Three meets his fate in the opening, thus letting the target fall to Number Four (Pettyfer). The film gives no clue as to whom or what established this pecking order.



Number Four and his protector (Timothy Olyphant), masquerading as his father, flee their identities in the Florida Keys for brand-new ones in the small town of Paradise, Ohio. As “John Smith,” Number Four enters a high school that even one character is forced to admit consists of clichés run amok: A male clique surrounding the school’s star quarterback bullies a geek who believes in UFOs; and a beautiful cheerleader only wants to escape the gravitational pull of these thick-headed jocks. Number Four is ordered to keep a low profile by his protector, which is hard to do when your hands glow like light bulbs and you can toss around football players and police cars like matchsticks. So Number Four has a very hard time staying off YouTube, which is why the Mogadorians, lead by a hammy Kevin Durand, are hot on his trail.



I Am Number Four is mostly a missed opportunity. The film plugs into some genuine teen angst and identity confusion that might have dovetailed nicely with its sci-fi elements. Instead these two realities, a high school with its many melodramas and aliens chasing each other around the country, operate on parallel tracks. At times it feels like the reels from two very different movies got mixed up in the projection booth. The idea here is nifty; the execution mostly pedestrian.



Even the ending as it relates to the teenagers in love feels weird. Perhaps the filmmakers are setting up a sequel, but this film’s final note is most unsatisfying.