朗讀者電影的主要內容英文

⑴ 求電影《朗讀者》的英文影評~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

電影簡介
http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-reader-413688

影評，影片故事背景
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/reader/
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/36686529.html

凱特溫絲萊特簡介
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kate_winslet/biography.php

⑵ 誰有《朗讀者》這部電影的英文簡介急！！

簡介
THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. Written by The Weinstein Company

Middle aged German barrister Michael Berg recollects to himself his lifelong acquaintance with Hanna Schmitz, a relationship with whom he never disclosed to anyone close to him. Michael first met Hanna in 1958, when he was fifteen, she thirty-one. The two had a turbulent summer long love affair, dictated by Hanna that their encounters would begin with him reading to her followed by lovemaking. Michael next encountered Hanna in 1966, when Michael, now a law student, attended the Nazi war crimes trial of five female former S.S. concentration camp guards, one of whom is Hanna. Through listening to the testimony, Michael comes to the realization that he is in possession of information which could save Hanna from a life in prison, information which she herself is unwilling to disclose. In deciding what to do, Michael is torn between his differing views of justice.

較詳細的
Michael Berg (David Kross), a fifteen year old young man living in Berlin in 1958, gets off the tram, cks into a doorway and vomits. An woman in her mid thirties (Kate Winslet) sees him and, after cleaning up after him, helps him get home. The doctor diagnoses him with scarlet fever and orders three months bedrest. All Michael can do is examine his stamps and bide his time.

When he is better, he returns to the apartment building to deliver a bouquet of flowers in thanks to the woman. She is matter of fact with him but asks him to escort her to work on the tramline. But when she catches him spying on her as she dresses, he runs away in shame. When he returns to apologize a few days later, she seces him. He persuades her to tell him her name -- Hanna. Michael returns to her every day after school, rejecting the clear interest of girls his own age. She asks him to read to her, and he brings her great works of world literature. He sells his stamps so they can go on a bicycle tour in the countryside. When Hanna is promoted by the tram company, she becomes unsettled and snaps at Michael when he tries to read her Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog." They make love one last time and she then moves away without telling him where she is going. Michael is heartbroken.

Eight years later (1966), Michael attends Heidelberg Law School. He is part of a seminar on the Holocaust, taught by Rohl (Bruno Ganz). The class attends the joint trial of six former guards at Auschwitz. Michael is shocked to learn that Hanna is one of the defendants. He is appalled to learn that Hanna was responsible for selecting Jewish women to be sent to death camps and was part of the forced march of hundreds of Jews from one camp to another; when the building in which the Jewish women were being housed overnight was set afire, Hanna and the other guards let them burn to death because to free them would have risked too much chaos. Hanna does not deny what she did and even rationalizes it. During testimony, it is revealed that Hanna had had camp prisoners read to her at night. The other guards claim that Hanna was the instigator of all the crimes and, rather than submit to a handwriting sample to disprove their claims, agrees with them. In the audience, Michael realizes that Hanna wanted others to read to her because she is illiterate. Urged on by Rohl but disturbed by a classmate who believes former Nazis should be killed, Michael tries to visit Hanna in prison to encourage her to tell the truth but, ashamed of his past with her, decides not to. Hanna is sentenced to life in prison.

As an alt, Michael (Ralph Fiennes) marries and has a daughter but remains emotionally withdrawn. His marriage ends and he becomes distant from his daughter. Discovering the books he had read to Hanna decades earlier, he re-establishes contact with her by reading the books into a tape recorder and sending them to her in prison. Using them as a guide, Hanna teaches herself to read and write. She sends him letters in return but he never responds. When it is time for her parole in 1990, Michael is the only person the prison social worker can contact. He reluctantly agrees to sponsor Hanna. He finds an apartment and job for her but, when he visits her a week before she is to be released, he is aloof to her. She tells him that before the trial, she never thought about what she did as an SS guard but thinks about nothing else now. After he leaves, she commits suicide. In her will, she asks Michael to give her life's savings to the family of one of the prisoners at Auschwitz. Michael visits the woman's daughter (Lena Olin) in New York and confesses his affair with Hanna for the first time. She refuses to forgive or accept the money but instead takes the tea tin Hanna had kept the money in, as it reminds her of a tin she had before she was sent to Auschwitz as a child. They agree to give the money to a Jewish literacy organization.

In 1995, Michael reunites with his daughter, Julia (Hannah Herzsprung), who has just returned from a year in Paris. He admits his failings as a father and drives her to a church that he and Hanna had visited ring their bicycle tour nearly forty years earlier. He shows her Hanna's grave and begins to tell her his and Hanna's story.

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''The Reader'' begins in 1995 Berlin, where a well-dressed Michael Berg is preparing breakfast for a woman who has one-night stand|spent the night at his apartment. The two part awkwardly, and as Michael watches an Berlin S-Bahn pass by outside afterwards the film flashes back to another tram in 1958 Neustadt. An unhappy-looking teenaged Michael gets off but wanders around the streets afterwards, finally pausing in the entryway of a nearby apartment building where he starts to vomiting|vomit. Hanna Schmitz, the tram Conctor, comes in and assists him in returning home. Michael is diagnosed with scarlet fever and must rest at home for the next three months. After he recovers he visits Hanna at her apartment and thanks her. The two begin an affair that lasts through that summer. Their liaisons, at her apartment, are characterized by him reading literary works he is studying in school to her, such as ''The Odyssey'', "The Lady with the Dog" and ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''. After the two go on a bicycling trip and Hanna is promoted to the offices at the tram company, she abruptly moves without letting Michael know where she has gone.

After another brief return to the alt Michael, who drives to a court where he is a lawyer, we see him again at Heidelberg University in 1966. As part of a special seminar taught by Professor Rohl, a camp survivor, he observes a trial of several women who were accused of letting 300 Jewish women die in a burning church when they were SS guards on the Death marches following the 1944 evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp. Michael is stunned to see that Hanna is one of the defendants.

He visits a former camp himself to try to come to terms with this. The trial divides the seminar, with one student angrily saying there is nothing to be learned from it other than that evil acts occurred. He tells Rohl that the older generation of Germans should kill themselves for their failure to act then and now.

The key evidence is the testimony of Ilana Mather, a young Jewish woman who has written a memoir about how she and her mother survived. When Hanna testifies, unlike her fellow defendants, she admits that she was aware Auschwitz was an extermination camp and that the ten women she chose ring each month's were subsequently gassed. She denies authorship of a report on the barn fire, despite pressure from the other defendants, but then admits it when asked to provide a handwriting sample.

Michael then realizes Hanna's secret: she is illiterate and has made many of her life choices to conceal that. Even her choice to join the SS was made because of her desire to avoid a job promotion meaning she would have had to reveal her illiteracy. Without being specific, Michael informs Rohl that he has information favorable to one of the defendants but is not sure what to do since the defendant herself wants to avoid disclosing this. Rohl tells him that if he has learned nothing from the past there is no point in having the seminar.

Hanna receives a ife sentence for her role in the church deaths while the other defendants get terms of a few years. Michael meanwhile marries, has a daughter and divorces. Rediscovering his books and notes from the time of his affair with Hanna, he begins reading some of those works into a tape recorder. He sends the cassettes and another tape recorder to her in prison. Eventually she uses these to teach herself to read the books themselves from the prison library, and writes back to him.

Michael does not write back or visit, but keeps sending tapes, and in 1988 the prison's warden writes to him to seek his help in arranging for her after her forthcoming release. He finds a place for her to live and a job, and sees her in person to tell her these things. The night before her sentence ends she hangs herself and leaves a note to Michael and a tea tin with cash in it.

Later, Michael travels to New York. He meets Ilana and confesses his past relationship with Hanna to her. He tells her that Hanna was illiterate for most of her life but that her suicide note told him to give both the cash, some money she had in a bank account and the tea tin to Ilana. After telling Michael there is nothing to be learned from the camps and that he should go to the theater if he is seeking catharsis. Michael suggests that he donate the money to a organization that combats alt illiteracy, preferably a Jewish one, and she agrees. Ilana keeps the tea tin since it is similar to one she herself had owned before being sent to the camps, where it was taken from her to be melted down.

The film ends with Michael getting back together with his daughter, Julia, whom he admits he has grown apart from. He takes her to Hanna's grave and begins to tell her the story.

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⑶ 電影《朗讀者》主要講了什麼

《朗讀者》是由美國韋恩斯坦國際影業公司出品的劇情片，由史蒂芬·戴德利執導，凱特·溫絲萊特、大衛·克勞斯、拉爾夫·費因斯領銜主演。該片於2008年12月10日在美國紐約首映 。

《朗讀者》根據德國作家本哈德·施林克的同名小說改編，講述了20世紀五十年代少年邁克和中年女子漢娜展開的一段刻骨銘心的愛情故事。

故事的結尾，早為人父的男子帶著女兒去緬懷這位女士，並對她說出所有的實情，以此來告知女兒自己所背負的東西。從表面上看，故事將的是這個男人，但是其實質上卻說的是德國人面對二戰之後矛盾的態度，犯罪的人是自己的國家，民族，也是自己的親人，朋友。如果你有裁決的權利，而犯罪的人又是你的親人，你能讓他去死嗎？這是一個血淋淋的命題。當然其實故事也說明白了，該死的其實都沒有死，受審的大部分都只是替罪羊而已。

⑷ 朗讀者講的是什麼

當情慾演變成愛情，他便已經墜入了最黑暗的深淵，就像滾燙的烙鐵被按在了最稚嫩的肌膚之上，而她在他身上所留下的記憶烙印，將伴隨他一生之久。
——基督山伯爵 題

《朗讀者》本身應該屬於一個愛情故事，然而這個愛情故事卻涉及到了比愛情主題更高的內容，對於戰爭的反思，對於人性的反思。男孩無意間邂逅的那個女人在消失多年之後出現在了二戰戰犯的審判席上，她同其他幾位婦女一同被控告參與了對猶太人的屠殺行為。盡管我們在影片中沒有看到一套黨衛軍制服，沒有看到一個黨衛軍的標志，但是這種指責卻比利劍更加具有穿透力，這把利劍所選擇的刺入點是戰爭年代中那些最普通的婦女，像漢娜這樣的婦女。她們軟弱、沒有依靠、甚至沒有文化，然而卻在無知的情況下完成了一次次慘絕人寰的罪行。與受害者相比，到底誰的經歷更具有悲劇性？受害者死了，漢娜還活著，這種蒼白地生存其實比死亡更加可怕，就好比是墜入了無間地獄，「為無量受業報之界」，漢娜得用自己的一生來反省自己犯下的罪，而偏偏這樣的要求對於一個文盲來說又顯得如此矛盾
《朗讀者》的故事可以有很多層面的挖掘，就好比一千個人心中有一千個哈姆雷特，你可以覺得它關注的焦點是二戰中滅絕人性的屠殺，而並非愛情本身；當然也可以把它當成一個純粹的愛情故事。這種獨特性是影片自身所特有的，它包含了人類社會中最敏感的主題，也包含了社會中那些最人本的東西。所有的一切都有著自身的不確定性，情慾可以變成愛情，無知可以變成屠刀，希望可以變成動力，隨著時間不斷前進，每一個人在鏡子中的線條都發生著變化。

⑸ 求生死朗讀英文版電影簡介

我不畏懼
無所畏懼
歷盡艱辛
吾愛愈深
危險惟使吾愛繁盛
使其更熱烈
使其更香濃
我是你唯一的守護天使
你之死將更華麗
尤甚你之生
上帝將你召回
直視你說
惟有一事可讓你靈魂完整
那就是愛情
I do not fear
Fearless
Experienced all kinds of hardships
To Sir deeper
To Sir busy but so dangerous
Make it more lively
Make it more flavor
I am your guardian angel only
Death of you will be gorgeous
Health, especially to you
God will you recall
Open you
Only the soul of integrity will allow you
That is love

⑹ 美國電影《朗讀者》誰能評論一下，謝謝。謝謝了，大神幫忙啊

對美國電影《朗讀者》的評論： 影片中，麥克對自己的女兒說，「其實一直以來我都不夠坦誠。」不管對別人還是對自己。《朗讀者》在一代對又一代的「坦誠」中，讓我們洞悉了一個時代的真相。宣洩也是窩藏了一種難以言明的情感。如今的我們在重新面對一些我們總是規避的歷史時，到底要坦誠到何種程度才會令人信服？令人理解呢？只不過拂去歷史的塵埃，沉甸甸的真相卻總無法讓你我坦然接受。那麼這種坦誠，又將置於何地呢？ 影片中大衛和凱特的多場激情戲的確是以性為切入口，那麼大的年齡差距卻發生地似乎合情合理。兩個演員的表演絲毫不會讓人產生異樣的感覺，在我看來這是影片營造的特殊氛圍的原因。在這樣一種即便是夏天也感到潮濕乾冷的環境中，一個情竇初開的少年和一個單純冷練的少婦，以純粹情慾萌發的情感，在溫良的澡盆中，在赤裸的交歡中，甚至在那次外人眼中的「母子」郊遊中，都不會顯得別扭，相反，正如這段情感對兩個人一生的影響，他們在此後的一生中，似乎都在懷念和支撐著這份情感。導演對於這樣一種情感的坦誠把握，三個演員對於這樣一種情感的微妙詮釋，都淡化了這份畸戀本身不協調的作祟，反而讓我們感動。 然而真正帶我們穿越情感命題的是影片真正主題的引入和升華。在這份畸戀不可避免地出現失和沖突時，漢娜選擇了悄無聲息地離開。而在多年後，麥克作為法學院學生參加審判二戰中納粹罪行的聽證會時，他驚愕地發現漢娜竟然是被指控謀殺300名猶太人的戰犯。至此，支撐影片後半部也是帶領整部影片升華的兩大主題出現，其一是對那段黑暗歷史的人文反思，另一個便是對於知識這一命題本身的思考。 法庭上的漢娜，她並沒有像其它一同被指認的罪犯一樣，否認自己的罪行，而是堅定異常地坦誠一切。「是的，是我做得」。我們在驚異於她「冷酷」「無知」的態度時，也不免跟隨她一同回望那個所有人看來都憤懣的黑暗時代。在奧斯維辛集中營，多少無辜的猶太人被納粹分子慘絕人寰地屠戮。漢娜也是儈子手之一。的確，看過電影，我們不能因為她當時的無知就原諒她，像影片中那個倖存的作家一樣，絕對不會寬恕她。然而突破個人的道德情感規范，而上升到一個狂熱時代的集體無意識來說，漢娜自身不也是一個悲劇和受害者么？她執拗遵循的規范，她堅守的職責，竟然是她眼睜睜看著300人被大火燒死的辯詞。她那句詰問大法官的話，換了你，你會怎麼做？其實是會讓所有人無語的。習慣了站在一定道德高度和「他人」視角來批判審視別人的集體，難倒不是我們的悲劇被一次次復制的源泉么？想必導演和觀眾，包括你我也絕對不會寬恕和原諒漢娜的作為，可是她卻是能夠被理解的。而且她的例子也是能夠被我們，被時代警醒的。 然而相比與她一同坐在被告席，卻昧著良心將所有罪責扣到漢娜身上的真正的罪犯來說，漢娜冒著傻氣的執拗卻顯得那樣坦誠和真實。影片出來後，導演斯蒂芬·達爾德里接到的最大批評便是他用一種藝術化的手法給殘酷的歷史披上了溫情的外衣，甚至站到理解罪惡的立場上來描繪漢娜這個人物。然而我倒覺得，導演恰是真正理解了那個時代，那些沾滿鮮血的手中，也有這樣一種被無意識推搡裹挾的人物。他並沒有理解罪惡，而是理解人性和時代的無奈；他也沒有要為漢娜們撥亂反正，而是希望我們在緬懷、批判、撻伐那些我們不堪回望的歲月時，需要有一種警醒，一種坦誠的正視。因此如果說導演真的在批判唾棄誰的話，那肯定是那些被判了4年刑期的黠笑流淚的「懺悔者」。 麥克這個角色其實是夾在歷史、情感、道德、理性之間的感知者。他與漢娜的那種情感讓他相信漢娜的為人，他對歷史的理性認識卻又讓他無法迴避對於漢娜們的道德批判和法律批判。因此影片中在宣判漢娜無期徒刑時，麥克難以掩抑地留下兩行熱淚，以及他目睹審判過程中的慌亂無措神傷，還有他去探望漢娜可最終轉身離去，這都讓整部影片提升了人文關懷的力量。像是蒙著眼睛的象徵著法律的女神一樣。我不想附和說這是導演身披的溫情的外衣，因為在我看來，這恰是這個導演在坦誠面對歷史時心中懷有的愛和力量。 關於影片的另一個主題，也是貫穿影片始終的表象上的主題：朗讀，卻讓我們得以從更多一層和另一個側面來看待漢娜和麥克這兩個人物，以及整部電影寄予的深思。漢娜和麥克認識時，讓麥克給她朗讀小說，只有這樣才和他做愛。而當初她在看守猶太人時，也選小女孩給她讀小說。其實漢娜是個文盲，可是她渴求著知識，她會聽小說時開心、哭泣。然而這樣一個人在面對共犯的栽贓時，為了不讓別人知道自己是文盲，保有最後的尊嚴，她寧願選擇終身監禁。導演這種設置一來是給無知一種批判，也是給知識一種崇高的寄託。無知本身並不是罪惡，可知識卻往往給別有用心的人利用。像守衛的漢娜，她也許只是想好好地本分地做個守衛，可卻在時代個狂熱中成為了階下囚。而我國在文革時期，不也有很多漢娜稀里糊塗地做了儈子手么？

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⑺ 朗讀者電影

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⑻ 朗讀者這部影片到底想通過劇情表達什麼內容沒看懂誒……而且漢娜根本不識字，為什麼審判時還要說報告是

生死朗讀？看的時候好像有隱晦的說明，漢娜這個人的自尊心非常強，不願在眾人面前暴露自己不識字事實，所以才對供認不諱。
個人理解，錯了或不喜勿噴：這部片子的背景是在二戰後的德國，故事一開始是一個中年女人漢娜和一個少年米夏的短暫戀情的開始，後來漢娜做了納粹集中營的看守。幾年後，米夏作為法學院的學生在老師的帶領下旁聽這場對納粹戰犯的審判，看見了身為犯人的漢娜。米夏因多方原因沒有替漢娜辯解，而漢娜也不願意暴露自己不識字，因此漢娜被定罪。
米夏在漢娜入獄後，不斷錄各種小說的帶子給漢娜寄去，多年一直堅持不斷，而漢娜也終於在錄音帶的幫助下認識了字，並給米夏寄去信件，但米夏一次也未回。而米夏也已在漢娜入獄後結婚後又離婚並有了一個女兒。
漢娜已白發蒼蒼，出獄的時間到了，米夏願意給漢娜提供物質上的幫助，卻拒絕和她溝通，後漢娜因此在獄中自殺。
而米夏為了減輕愧疚感幫忙把漢娜留下來的錢給了在納粹集中營受到傷害的人，同時也幫漢娜辯解。
嗯，只看了一遍，大概印象便是這些，覺得有批判納粹集中營。看到最後只覺得漢娜完全影響了米夏的一生，很多電影都描寫過德國納粹集中營，穿條紋睡衣的男孩也是，還不錯，你可以看一下。
PS：我完全是手打的。。。。

⑼ 如何理解電影《朗讀者》(The Reader)

這部影片之所以深受好評，凱特·溫絲萊特完美的表現首當其沖，美國有媒體表示「我有多久沒有為一個虛構的角色而感動了？凱特·溫絲萊特在本片的演出無可挑剔。」這樣的評價令人信服。《朗讀者》通過黨衛隊成員漢娜這個角色，以及他與米夏·伯格之間的情愛關系，展現了二戰期間德國納、粹集、中營的情況，並且從一個特別的角度，對戰爭中的屠殺、紛爭和人性的扭曲、包容和理解，客觀而又深刻的表達出被害者的痛苦。影片中的納粹戰爭，沒有武器、沒有徽章、沒有流血，甚至沒有任何室外戲來表現。但我們卻看到了人們對戰爭的詰問、痛恨和爭論，漢娜顯然是罪犯中最特殊的一個，導演沒有將她的感想完全表露出來，而是始終選擇通過第三人的角度對她進行觀察和敘述，因此觀眾和她之間始終是存在一定距離感的。我們也只能從男孩米夏·伯格、二戰受害者和監獄管理人員的嘴中得知她的所為所感。
可以說，凱特·溫絲萊特在《朗讀者》中為我們奉獻了偉大的表演，從而使她成為在奧斯卡影後爭奪戰中，梅麗爾·斯特里普最直接最有力的競爭者。此前表現二戰題材的影片多部勝數，但《朗讀者》卻是那麼的與眾不同，影片通過凱特扮演的漢娜，讓我們看到在那場戰爭中有許多毫不自覺的參與到其中的人，他們擁有羞恥心和完整的人格，對工作認真負責，是極好的社會成員和產業工作者，但在當時無法想像的殘酷時局下，他們卻不經意的成為戰爭的參與者，成為別人罪惡行徑的執行者，這種遭遇所帶來的心理負擔和負罪感，同樣難以撫平。導演史蒂芬·戴德利對此也是感慨良多：「在某種程度上而言，他們也是受害者，只是從來就沒有人關注過他們。

可以說這是一部關於懺悔與救贖的電影，男女主人公一生都深陷自己的過去而不能自拔。年輕時的米夏·伯格，放棄了身邊充滿陽光、歡聲笑語的生活和好朋友，每天很早的回到那個陰暗狹小的房間中。而漢娜也在他生日的時候選擇了離開，去經歷她人生中最灰暗的時刻。於是兩人騎車漫步鄉野，共進午餐的歡樂時光，便成了他們一生中最快樂的瞬間。

片中扮演成年米夏·伯格的拉爾夫·費因斯，則早先在《辛德勒的名單》中主演過這類二戰納粹題材的影片，同是英國演員的他和凱特·溫絲萊特在《朗讀者》里優秀的演出令人過目不忘，而且倆人的德國英語的確純正，為影片加分不少。當然，這部影片也不是沒有爭議，比如凱特·溫絲萊特和扮演少年米夏的演員大衛·克勞斯之間的情愛戲，其實是非常真實、精彩的，可惜影片公映後帶來的負面新聞事件令人們難免感到些許不快。

此前媒體和影迷都將目光集中在凱特·溫絲萊特在老公導演的《革命之路》上，她的表演也的確值得稱贊，但無論是角色的感染力、表演難度和年齡跨度上，《朗讀者》中的漢娜對觀眾和學院都更有吸引力。而凱特在片中的戲份並不是最多的，但她卻在未出鏡的時間里，依然牢牢抓住了觀眾的心思。在影片中把女主人公的懺悔、思念和隱忍，表露的入木三分，將觀者的心思牢牢帶入到當時的那種境況之中。

⑽ 電影朗讀者的劇情是什麼。講述了什麼故事，謝謝

二戰後作為戰敗國的德國處在盟軍和蘇軍的管制中，萬事蕭條，百廢待興。生活在柏林的15歲少年邁克·伯格患上了猩紅熱，但他仍然時不時的坐車到很遠的圖書館中找尋自己愛看的書籍，對於這位身處戰後管制區的少年而言，這是他僅有的娛樂。邁克在公車上意外結識了風情萬種的售票員漢娜，這位比他年紀大得多的漂亮女人，在青春期少年邁克的心目中是最讓他魂牽夢繞的人，但是他也並不敢與漢娜攀談。直到有一次路上邁克的猩紅熱病發，漢娜將他送回家，兩人才開始漸漸交談起來。病好的邁克前往漢娜住的地方感謝她的救命之恩，在漢娜的屋內，邁克第一次感受到了非比尋常的快樂。
兩人的關系發生了奇妙的化學反應，情慾變成了愛情，他和漢娜私下見面的次數越來越多，兩人在漢娜的公寓中度著屬於自己的快樂時光。漢娜常常叫邁克帶來不同的書籍，然後慢慢地讀給他聽。相處中邁克和漢娜的矛盾漸漸爆發，邁克試圖對抗年齡的懸殊帶來的服從感，並想擺脫自身的稚氣和懦弱。終於有一天，當邁克前往漢娜的公寓，發現已經人去樓空，這段無果之戀也走到了盡頭。
畢業之前，邁克作為實習生前往旁聽一次對納粹戰犯的審判，在審判席上，邁克做夢也沒有想到，坐在戰犯座位上的，竟然是漢娜！審判開始了，原來漢娜曾經做過納粹集中營的看守。或許是出於自責、或是對法律的無知、漢娜對指控供認不諱，並因為不願在眾人面前暴露自己不認字的事實，認下本不屬於自的重責。邁克此時有能力幫助漢娜澄清事實，出於懦弱和不願暴露自己和漢娜關系的自私，他選擇了沉默，就連給漢娜鼓勵的勇氣也沒有。最終漢娜被判終身監禁。
邁克在很多年後開始給獄中的漢娜寄自己朗讀的磁帶，這讓漢娜重新找到了活著的意義和勇氣，並且漢娜通過磁帶和書的逐字對比學會了閱讀和書寫！並且開始給邁克寫信。邁克從來沒有回過。也許他想逃避那份自責的心情；也許他沒有勇氣面對漢娜。這讓漢娜感到無比的孤單。漢娜出獄的時間到了，邁克來到獄中看見已經白發蒼蒼的漢娜，雖然承諾給漢娜提供出獄後物質上的援助，卻拒絕了心靈溝通。漢娜絕望自殺。
幫助漢娜處理遺願並不能使邁克逃出自責，他最後選擇傾訴來宣洩內心的痛楚。