I don't much care for films that exploit a historical tragedy to try to give greater meaning to what might otherwise be pedestrian material.  I'm not talking about historical films, even some historical fiction - I'm talking about the films that have plotlines that could have taken place without the backdrop of the tragedy.  Movie about a woman struggling to learn to read? Could be a story of human triumph. Movie about a woman struggling to read who was an OMG NAZI! Not something I'm likely to watch. Movie about a dude who gets younger instead of older?  Might be interesting.  Movie about a dude who gets younger instead of older set against the events of Hurricane Katrina?  Please give me my three hours back. 

The Reader particularly stuck in my craw because I consider movies that humanize war criminals to be a soft form of revisionism. (No, I haven't seen the movie, and I most likely won't. So if one of you morons who has seen it would care to set me straight on what a beautiful film it was, you're welcome to. And not just because Kate Winslet gets nekkid.)

I think Kate Winslet searched for this particular part for years, as is evidenced by this clip from 2005:

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