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"The Reader," starring (what isn't these days?) Kate Winslet and

Posted by tinear on January 25, 2009 at 21:36:53:
Ralph Fiennes, though he splits time with the actor (noticeably inferior to Fiennes) portraying his character at an earlier age.
Winslet's character is a surly, depressed young woman who seduces an adolescent. Later, after their affair has ended, she is arrested and found to have been an Auschwitz prison guard directly responsible for the deaths of 3 hundred inmates.
Now, of course, the camera loves Winslet's pale, pre-Raphaelite face and it is impossible to see it and her shapely unclad form repeatedly over the course of a good 1/2 hour of intimacy (you'd need to have moved on to your toes to count them all) and not fall a little in love with her.
So, what purpose all of this and then reveal her to have been a callous, indifferent murdereress? The idea that her illiteracy somehow had a role in her detachment from human suffering is ludicrous. If it is to argue that perfectly ordinary people can become monsters... well, that isn't exactly a novel idea worthy of several hours of a viewer's time.
What's even worse is that the producers think it important to continue to pound away at the German population. Most Nazis now are long gone as are pretty much the entire generation. The argument that we cannot be allowed to forget is nonsensical: has any American forgotten 9/11? What purpose would making ten films a year about it serve, especially 70 years in the future? Do the Chinese and Russians feel it necessary to lacerate themselves over the pogroms of Mao and Stalin (which were far, far greater in number, not that it makes the crime worse)?