The Reader

Movie • 2008 • Drama  

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The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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Does the dog die?
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a horse die?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Abuse
Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Does an animal die?
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Fear
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Anonymous
Not necesserily a shower seen but the two main characters take several baths together and are completely naked
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Are there clowns?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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In the beginning, the main character vomits on the street. Its not very graphic but you might want to look away for a few seconds. It doesn’t happen suddenly, so you see him looking sick in the „Straßenbahn“(I habe no idea what they‘re called in english). After he throws up a woman takes a bucket and washed the vomit away. You can look again when she‘s done with it
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Mental Health
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Relationships
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He is 15, she is 36

At least in the book. But I think the age gap in the movie is similar. He‘s a minor and she is in not that young anymore.

An other problem is, that this relationship isn‘t really criticised by anyone
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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