Here, the relationship between Winslet's Hanna and Kross' Michael is totally fine – controversial perhaps, but consenting nonetheless. The first, Doubt, suggests that such affection is immoral and wrong, and should be forbidden, even if good is coming from it. It's almost ironic that this year saw two films about pedophilia. Told through flashback and flash forwards, with Ralph Fiennes controlling the lead in the 1990s, The Reader tries to be a sweeping, poetic and haunting love story, but, at it's core, it's nothing more than manipulative Oscar-bait, crafted and designed to pull at our heartstrings using broken characters and controversial love. Finally realizing she cannot read, which is why she made him read to her before, Michael feels helpless as she's convicted for writing the orders to kill the women and children.
Among them is Michael's former lover, Hanna.
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Years later, when Michael is in law school, he's taken to a Nazi trial revolving around six female guards who worked at Auschwitz and are responsible for the death of nearly 300 women and children. Their fleeting relationship lasts only a summer, though, and comes as quickly as it arrived. It acts as a sort of poetic foreplay and relationship builder as she and Michael explore many of the world's most renowned and beloved books. The woman, Hanna Schmitz (Winslet), enjoys when the boy, Michael (David Kross), reads to her. For those unaware (which is just about everyone, it seems), The Reader is a love story, set in post-Nazi Germany, about a 15-year-old boy who falls for a woman in her late 30s.
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