Has anyone seen The Reader?

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    ark104 New Member

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    Watched it last night, just wondered what people's thoughts on it were?
     
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    Very good. Kate Winslet was excellent and as a bonus you get to see her arse.
     
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    Thought it was a pretty incredible film

    I'd read some stuff criticising it but I thought it handled the difficult subject matter really well. Good to watch a film that makes you think.
     
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    RE: Thought it was a pretty incredible film

    If it was me, I'd take the embarrassment of people finding out I couldn't read over years in gaol as the top Nazi any day.
     
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    RE: Thought it was a pretty incredible film

    That was what a lot of the criticism was about I think, that being illiterate was being classed as more shameful than participating in the holocaust. But i thought the point seemed to be that she was pretty ambivalent to what she'd done so to her it was
     
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    And her chuff

    if memory serves.
     
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    stunt chuff nt
     
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    lol

    :D
     
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    Seen it and read the book

    Well actually ashamed to say, I have not read the book. Too difficult and no pictures.
     
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    That's like me with War and Peace

    I've not seen the film and I've not read the book, though I have seen the book.
     
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    Big, isnt it! nt
     
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    Didn't fancy lifting it never mind reading it.
     
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    you get a....

    Better class of arts review on the bbs than radio 4 any day
     
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    What did you reckon?

    I liked Bruno Ganz's character, who last time I saw him in a film was ironically playing Hitler
     
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    Ooh oooh oooh

    I've read it twice, although I must admit I skipped over most of the stuff that was in French, not sure why they left that in the original language and just translated the Russian bits.

    It's basically a big long soap opera about some noble/minor royal families in and around the Napoleonic Wars.
     
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    I keep meaning to start Crime and Punishment but it always loses out to something more manageable nt
     
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    I've seen that book too

    It was in the hands of our lass, as was War and Peace. She didn't seem to enjoy reading either of them. Looked like a lot of hard work for little reward to me.
     
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    I thought it was an excellent film

    And book for that matter. The film kept very tightly to the book.
    Having visited Auschwitz, last year, I have ready more widely on the subject of the holocaust and still struggle to answer the basic questions- why
     
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    RE: I've seen that book too

    Its lost out to The Wasp Factory and Carra: The Autobiography the last two times
     
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    RE: I thought it was an excellent film

    I really want to go but haven't been able to convince the missis its the ideal location for a romantic weekend away. Have you read If This Is A Man by Primo Levi? Best (if you can have a best) book about the Holocaust i've read
     
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