Gene Carlisle

In the end, the Germany based movie is sad and can be generally broken into two parts. In the first happy part 16 year old Michael (David Kross) has an affair with ~30 year old Hanna (Kate Winslet). In the sad second part Hanna is on trial for Nazi war crimes where Michael, now a law student, attends. An unrealistic thing about Hanna is that she is illerate, but Nazi Germany was highly educated having an extremely high literacy rate. It is unrealistic that Hanna elects to take the major blame for the crimes by saying that she wrote the document and thus receives the higher life-time sentence instead of admitting her illiteracy. (Yeah, I know it's only a movie perhaps to provoke strong response.) Hanna had helped Michael when he was ill, and Michael really disappoints by not notifying Hanna's lawer of her illiteracy. Twenty years later Hanna is to be released and Michael, now a lawer (Ralph Fiennes), visits her to let her know that he has found her a job and a place to live. They care deeply for one another...why bring up Hanna's Nazi past instead of being more personal...like a hug...would she have changed her mind about the suicide? I wish I had stopped watching before the end of the affair.