I haven’t felt like blogging in ages.
These days I’m doing most of my writing in long-hand in a black notebook that I show to nobody.
I haven’t done any interviews for weeks. They’re so time-consuming.
I’m rarely home.
I just feel like getting out and about, reading books and paying my bills and going to yoga and therapy and hanging out with friends.
I’m still interested in scoops. And you can stop by my cam chat to say hi.
I just watched the movie "The Reader." It left me in tears.
The female protagonist learns to read but tells her lover, "I prefer to be read to."
I love to be read to. My parents read to me a lot as a child and again when I was bedridden in my twenties. It makes me feel loved.
Alex writes on IMDB.com: The Reader is one of my favorite movies from the year 2008. It is incredibly complex in the way you react to the characters of the movie. It carries many emotions from sensuality to anger all the way back to that of sympathy and resolution. Many moves advertise themselves as unbiased and fair but nothing gets close to that like The Reader which is able to build sympathy for a character you would never think you could feel towards.
The acting in the movie was phenomenal. Especially that of Kate Winslet who draws out many emotions from whoever is watching. She plays an ex-Nazi guard who has an affair with a 16 year old boy played very well by David Kross. Her bitter, cold attitude, random behavior as well as her past history seems unjustifiable and deplorable. Yet you can do nothing more than feel empathy and compassion towards the shame and humiliation she feels about her one well kept secret. In the course of her affair she ask for one thing, to be read to. From this do you see the humanity within her. Ralph Fiennes also gave quite a nice performance as an older Michael Berg who looks back on his life and then later finds a way to open himself up through his time of self reflection and sudden realizations towards life.
LYRA EXPLAINS THE ENDING: Michael had always been detached and withdrawn from his daughter and everyone else in his life because of his relationship with Hanna. He and his daughter never developed a real relationship. Michael visited Hanna’s grave and sent her those tapes because he needed closure and wanted to finally come to terms with his conflicted feelings for her that crippled him for much of his life. And of course he owes his daughter an explanation for why he was so detached from her as she was growing up. In the end, Michael finally let Hanna go, thus was able to open himself up to a real relationship with his daughter.
