THE READER (2008) A

Another movie related to the Holocaust and it's aftermath.

It must be that with the making and release of Shindler's List, it's now OK to produce movies that depict German people that were involved in the slaughter of the innocents as humans . . . who on any given day nurse their young, and on the next day kill others of the same species to protect what they consider a threat to there family.

In this movie (set in postwar Germany, 1956), a teen aged boy is ill and is rescued by a woman twice his age. They get involved in a passionate affair. The women disappears and the young man is overwhelmed by the loss of his sex partner . . . his first love . . . and in this case a very powerful "love".

Acting , music, screenplay; great.

The two lessons from this film:
1. Even people that perform horrible crimes are multifaceted. No one is all good or all evil. Some people see and notice everything, some people see and feel nothing.
2. Number two lesson is that a first love . . . usually discovered during teen years . . . and that we may pine over because we lost them for one reason or another . . . most probably is a poor choice for a mate. It's just not possible to understand your own personality during these formative years . . . let alone someone else's.