Reader, The (2008)  Theatrical Movie Reviews Theatrical Written
by Daniel Hirshleifer    Thursday, 29 January 2009  0 of 0
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review helpful to you? yes     no I remember listening to an
audio commentary by German director Werner Herzog. In it, he was
discussing how his generation had an acute crisis: How does one
deal with the fact their parents were Nazis or Nazi
sympathizers? Despite all I had learned as a child about the
Holocaust, this particular aspect of World War II had never
occurred to me. Immediately, I became fascinated. After all, it
was easy to empathize with the victims of the Nazi regime,
people rounded up and killed for nothing more than their
beliefs, or skin color, or sexual orientation. But what of the
Germans who came after? How do they deal with a national legacy
that institutionalized bigotry and murder?  Such are the
questions brought to bear by The Reader, the newest film by
Stephen Daldry (The Hours). The film focuses on M