Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: This movie sounds awesome

[quote name="E. L. Koba"][quote]From the Barnes & Noble Web site summary of the novel: "Michael recognizes his former lover on the stand, accused of a hideous crime. And as he watches Hanna refuse to defend herself against the charges, Michael gradually realizes that she may be guarding a secret more shameful than murder." Yes, <i>more shameful than murder</i>! Lack of reading skills is <i>more</i> disgraceful than listening in bovine silence to the screams of 300 people as they are burned to death behind the locked doors of a church you're guarding to prevent them from escaping the flames. Which is what Hanna did, although, of course, it's not shown in the film. As I learned from the director at a screening of The Reader, the scene was omitted because it might have "unbalanced" our view of Hanna, given <i>too much weight</i> to the mass murder she committed, as opposed to her lack of reading skills.[/quote] Also she was a guard at Auschwitz. But she learns to read at the end, so she is a good person.[/quote]