tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29063686.post2355848421752724110..comments2024-03-12T03:27:31.441-04:00Comments on Dougintology: Movie Review: The ReaderIbidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15614529174562538070noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29063686.post-27985259642702424902009-02-24T16:39:00.000-05:002009-02-24T16:39:00.000-05:00this might be strange to say...but I'm still stuck...this might be strange to say...but I'm still stuck on the whole 30 year old having a love affair with a 15 year old thing.Sweetly Singlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380947782033563697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29063686.post-75575562051897193252009-02-24T11:34:00.000-05:002009-02-24T11:34:00.000-05:00I tried so hard to figure out what the movie was A...I tried so hard to figure out what the movie was ABOUT. I could accept it as a whole, but when I started to look at the individual pieces, I couldn't understand what the overriding theme was. There is the boy, a boy that didn't seem to fit in with his peers, who shacks up with an older woman that takes charge of his afternoons. He seems to gain confidence from their relationship, but his interaction with his peers suffers as a result. He bathes a lot with Kate Winslet, but never swims with his cute bikini-clad classmate in the lake with all of the other students. When the relationship with Winslet ends, there's a dramatic scene in which the boy takes off his shoes and lays them to the side, and then swims naked in the lake alone. During the trial of Winslet, the boy goes to Auschwitz looking for something. Perhaps an explanation? In a dramatic scene, he walks through a room full of shoes, taken from the Jewish prisoners before the were sent to the gas chambers, piled to the ceiling. Later, when Winslet goes to hang herself in prison, she deliberately removes her shoes and places them to side in a move that very much resembles that made by the boy years earlier. What's the significance of the shoes? Is there a significance? Or the water? What's with the all of the water? The bathing, the swimming, the rain. And the reading? There's all of this reading and not reading happening. What's with the reading/not reading? All in all, I just didn't get it. But I do agree that Kate Winslet has very dark nipples.GreenCanaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16853115389272100845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29063686.post-78723003490415867102009-02-24T10:49:00.000-05:002009-02-24T10:49:00.000-05:00I didn't see the movie. I did read the book and I...I didn't see the movie. I did read the book and I thought the whole point of the story was to say that people are complex. The boy has very real mixed emotions. <BR/><BR/>People like to think of the Nazis as monsters. They were people. Complex people.lacochranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12122022168616822147noreply@blogger.com