{"id":42,"date":"2025-01-29T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fulldvd.org\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:54:09","slug":"the-books-thief-a-new-film-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulldvd.org\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTHE BOOKS THIEF\u201d \u2013 A new film report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240223205130im_\/https:\/\/fulldvd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/film-1927658__340.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How many movies can a person watch about how people felt about Hitler, the Nazis, and the wide-ranging effect of World War II? Just like westerns: they come and they go. But as long as these movies hit us with some important truths, there\u2019s no need to curtail them. Certainly,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fulldvd.org\/the-best-dutch-movies\/\">this film<\/a>\u00a0shares a wealth of emotions that a group of Germans had to endure while suffering the curse of Nazism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cIt starts with a young\u2026!\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It begins with a young girl \u2013 Liesel \u2013 who is sent to live with a German couple \u2013 after her own parents \u2013 Communists \u2013 are shipped to a stranger but feared death. She\u2019s a sweet kid \u2013 blond, blue eyes \u2013 innocent \u2013 the kind of kid that melts your heart. She is played by Sophie Nelisse; and in the movie she is about twelve years old. She comes to live with this childless couple, who take her into their home with some fear. Geoffrey Rush (Hans) is now her new father; and her mother is Rosa \u2013 not exactly a hospitable woman\u2026 But Hans is wonderful. He quickly finds a way to touch her ghost in a funny way, and they develop a close rapport throughout the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cA big part of this movie\u2026!\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of this film has to do with Liesel\u2019s coming of age to love books \u2013 learning to read quickly and enjoying their content. What goes on on the outside seems nutrient-depleted, compared to how books fill her mind with strong nourishment. Hans teaches her to read the alphabet, then words and then really read a book. Her whole mind seems to absorb everything she reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cInto Her Life verscheen \u2026 !\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In her life appeared \u2013 immediately \u2013 a feisty young man, her neighbor, named Rudy, who becomes her companion and brother-like confessor. His great wish to kiss her does not come true, although she gives him a long lasting kiss at the end. One night, she is summoned by her foster parents to take in a runaway Jew in need of their protection, and is happily received by Hans whose life was once saved by this man\u2019s father. Max is his name, and he and Liesel build a lovely platonic relationship filled with words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cHow nice to see people \u2026 !\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the wonderful aspects of this film is how it thrives on sheer innocence. How nice to see people of the opposite sex love without having to show us so many physical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fulldvd.org\/toronto-international-film-festival-is-still-a-friend-of-independent-films\/\">cinematic gestures<\/a>. There are some scenes that I thought were emotionally beautifully done. I sat there, a dumb spectator, totally absorbed with no thoughts on acting \u2013 a fly on the wall observation as people before me went through Nazi-Will\u2019s heartbreak and anxieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s a tried and true saw!\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a tried and true saw, \u201cEMOTION WINS!\u201d, that proved itself in this movie. A number of such scenes received my highest praise. The end of the film flowed bittersweet. Not to mention there\u2019s a narrator called DEATH \u2013 who I found a bit annoying at first, but gradually got used to (his look) and even found him towards the end: endearing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201c\u2018THE BOOKTHief\u2019 is based on\u2026 !\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>THE BOOKTHEFT is based on a true life, and DEATH even tells us that Liesel survives the city\u2019s last air raid to spend her long remaining years in an Australian city. I thought the way the movie dealt with the fate of the others was consistent with the story as it unfolded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hier is \u201cTwo Minutiae\u201d\u2026 !<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Two minutiae I wanted to mention here: One of the city\u2019s shop windows showed three big German words screaming, \u201cFEIND HORT MIT!\u201d \u201cThe enemy is listening.\u201d The irony of this warning was \u2013 although for the Nazis \u2013 Germans have to be careful what they say \u2013 as they will be heard by the \u201cenemy\u201d \u2013 for the Germans (in this film) the real enemy was the Nazis themselves, because their presence compelled the people to say little \u2013 unless they could be shipped along with the others! I also had a feeling that even though Liesel had been with her new parents for several years \u2013 and people noticed how she\u2019d grown \u2013 she looked the same afterward as she did in the beginning. 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