Comments on: Review: The Reader

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:58:19 +0000

"Who thinks up this garbage?"

Hollywood.

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:56:26 +0000

Its French.

By: Richard Carlsbad

Richard Carlsbad — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:29:40 +0000

Yes, There is one thing we can agree on. Hat's off to you on the tutoring.

By: Vince_Los_Ang

Vince_Los_Ang — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:43:09 +0000

Winslet's character was mentally-handicapped. And, no, I'm not talking about her illiteracy. I gave my explanation in an earlier post.

You say I don't read well. This is what you wrote: "If you think back to the people you knew in high school that were in the "Drama Club" this all makes sense. In my HS, these folks were mostly what I would label perverts. They were obsessed with anything abnormal. Also, totally self-absorbed." So, I'm confused. Where are you talking about Hollywood in this passage? say you tutor adults you cannot read. Do you tutor adults who cannot read well? If I misread this, than I may require your tutoring services!

One thing we do have in common is that we're both tutors!

By: Richard Carlsbad

Richard Carlsbad — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:25:03 +0000

I will say one thing Vince, you do not read very well. I did say that you were working at being an intelligent liberal. I think I said the rest of those things about HOLLYWOOD. So, unless your name is Hollywood, this was not directed at you.

If you did do Drama Club in High School, well, I ask you to look at that experience. You be the judge. I was talking about the kids in my HS.

Specific to the Reader, I have no opinion save the subject matter. I tutor adults who cannot read. On balance they are a good bunch. To my knowledge, none of them are mass murders nor do they seduce children, but hey, you never know.

By: Vince_Los_Ang

Vince_Los_Ang — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:44:34 +0000

Hmmn, Richard. We've never met and you know me so well. According to you, I'm a pervert, totally self-aborbed, obsessed with anything abnormal and I try really hard at being an intelligent liberbal, all because I did Drama Club in high school and I liked "The Reader." The most I can say about you is that you generalize and are a little quick to judge.

By: Richard Carlsbad

Richard Carlsbad — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:26:51 +0000

Vince, you are working very hard to be an intelligent liberal (oxymoron?). You are so erudite! I love that word.
Yes, Hollywood always tries to show us the REAL reason that folks behave very very badly. Somehow, they always seem to come down to making it pretty cool or sympathetic to live these peverted lifestyles. At the same time, there is an invariable swipe at the other side: corporations, white men, the South, conservatives, the South, the government, esp, in the South. Face it, HW has its vision for the rest of us to adopt.

And they keep chipping away, one bad movie at a time. Poor Lady, she had limited social skills. Could not tell that gassing people might be a bad idea?

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:50:25 +0000

It's been in the cinema for over a month.

By: Vince Los Angeles

Vince Los Angeles — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:46:45 +0000

RE: Woodsman/Little Children/Hollywood sympathization of child molestors. More of that black/white thinking again. So, basically, examination of child molestation in film is simply unacceptable unless the child molestors are all bad guys getting castrated and/or thrown in jail. Let's ignore the problem and maybe it will go away! Boy, would I love to live in your head, John. Yeah, I wish life was that simple.

Please name me something awful that Hollywood has "normalized" through its mere depiction on film? How long has prostitution been depicted on film? Has it been "normalized" into our culture? What about heroine use? Has that been "normalized" into our culture? What makes pedophilia and child molestation anything different? These are things that are in no way normal, but they happen, they exist. They are in our society and they are not going to go away, ESPECIALLY if we sweep them under the rug. The only way we get to answers and solutions is to clearly inspect the problem. Why is this so friggin' taboo? When are we going to pull our heads down from above the smog?

By: Vince Los Angeles

Vince Los Angeles — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:31:28 +0000

Because this was not even mentioned in the film doesn't been it wasn't there. It was just something that I inferred. If I'm unintelligent and can't think for myself because I found this film moving and thought-provoking, so be it. I'm glad you all can be so self-congratulatory for being so smart, because you have the ability to pass judgment on films you haven't seen.

Additionally, this film doesn't diminish what the Holocaust did. It was a disgusting period in world history and this film does nothing to change that.