The Reader

Kate Winslet's eyes spoke their language. She has the ability to mutate from an unconventional housewife living on a Revolutionary Road into an illiterate lover linked to the dark passages of Auschwitz. And she has the ability to get excited, and excite us, with the verses and lines from universal masterpieces that enter her ears and trigger her mind with pain, lust, sensitibity. Scarce moments of delight and a life journey filled with puzzle pieces that would hardly paint a clear image in the end. Reading and writing as a route to connect to the outer world when one is imprisonned (literally and metaphorically). 

A question arised, what is it that reading offers that audio-visual cannot? my answer, when reading, a voluntary action that requires an intimate effort, we get to paint our images and recreate characters in our minds... audiovisual gives us painted pictures as we watch passively... 

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