Running a little over two hours, this drama of more than a few layers perhaps seems as though it ought to be relatively tight, but in the end, the film relies quite a bit on meandering material that, before too long, begins to run together, retarding momentum with the help of a certain directorial dryness which all but bores at times. I was kind of expecting this film to approach its broad timeline in a nonlinear fashion, and for a long while into the final product, I was expecting it to take the much more episodic approach of segmenting its plot's layers, but when it comes down to it, the film awkwardly tosses in glimpses of a present of 1995 to break up flashback segments which, upon shifting, jar, and it doesn't help that each segment outstays its welcome to begin with. Oh no, don't get me wrong, this film is pretty good, but it's hardly "Revolutionary Road", for a number of reasons.
Kate winslet the reader movie#
Even though I thought that movie was mighty cute, I can sort of respect Winslet for wanting to make up for that sappiness with the sadder romance stuff, but having "Revolutionary Road" released a few days after this film is just plain sadistic, not to people's emotions, per say, but to the quality of this film, by comparison. A lot of people in this film, such as Ralph Fiennes - who was a super-Nazi in "Schindler's List" - and Bruno Ganz, - who is playing a Holocaust survivor four years after he played Hitler - seem to be apologizing for their own Nazi pasts, but Winslet seems more interested in making up for "The Holiday". Seriously though, you do know that this is going to be quite the weighty drama, not necessarily because it's about Nazism and all of that jazz, but because it's a romantic drama starring Kate Winslet.
I'd say that films dealing with Nazism seem to have lost their entertainment value ever since "Schindler's List" came in and said, "Hey, who needs a war movie where something actually happens?" (I would like to emphasize that I really like "Schindler's List", because I'm sure I'm in enough trouble for not out-and-out loving it), but "Judgment at Nuremberg", way back in 1961, was three hours of a trial, and it was good and interesting enough without all of the sex scenes. It's a period drama about someone who reads, so, you know, this is going to be awesomely intense.
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