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The Reader is the haunting story of a former Nazi death camp guard. Kate Winslet plays the disturbing role, and did she do a good job or did she do a good job! Her awesome performance won her the Oscar Award for the Best Actress category. The story revolves around her penchant for reading, the guilt of being a Nazi death camp guard, and the passionate [...]

The award-winning novel ‘The Reader’ was written by Bernhard Schlink who happens to be a German law professor and judge. It is small wonder that the novel is suffused with the topic of Holocaust guilt. In fact, ‘The Reader’ sags so heavily beneath the weight of the subject of guilt. Hanna (played in the movie adaptation by Kate Winslet which [...]

Director Sam Mendes tells of an America in the 1950s as a microcosm of routine conformity and the subsequent frustration when desires are not turned into reality. Through the broken dreams of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, the weight of daily living without an escape route is a fitting portrait of America during a psychologically grappling and [...]