6/8/2023 0 Comments Movie the readerIn particular, the assemblage of famous Hollywood stars - all of whom, by their presence, refer to other well-known films (Kate Winslet was in the Titanic, Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient, Bruno Ganz in Der Untergang) - makes the film differ from the novel in a striking, even provocative, manner. While Daldry’s previous film The Hours (2002) - about Virginia Woolf - did not carry the earmarks of a typical Hollywood movie, his most recent production The Reader, which was shown at the Berlinale 2009, alludes back to the Hollywood canon and to the particular segment of popular culture that deals with Germany and the Holocaust. The book is considered a didactic example of how conformist thinking on moral issues can be avoided: a perpetrator’s background story may turn out to be complex and even tragic, while, unexpectedly, a victim may turn out to be, in some sense, blameworthy.īut this emphasis on similarities between Holocaust victims and perpetrators comes with an ethical risk, if emotions take over - the overwhelmed audience is supposed to be gradually prepared for the perpetrator’s redemption. Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader ( Der Vorleser 1995 in Swedish, Högläsaren 1997) is an international bestseller and is often included in the curriculum of German public schools.
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