The Reader
(Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008)
Naturally, it would be the movie that describes Kate Winslet as a horse that would, no doubt, get her an Oscar nod. Adapted from Bernhard Schlink’s book The Reader, Winslet’s character is described as both beautiful and stocky, muscular and strong — i.e. a horse. It’s post-war Germany, and this, ahem, equine goddess engages in an affair with a 15-year-old boy, who reads Homer, Twain and Chekhov to her (how erotic!). But decades later, the boy, now a grownup lawyer (Ralph Fiennes) is shattered to find his lady deflowerer on the stand for a monstrous crime. He’s, more or less, having a psychological freakout. Ooh, we like. Oscar, you likey, too?
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