It's a worryingly lenient and obtuse approach to history and historical evil, which are smothered in feelgood tragi-sentimental slush. Soon Liesel discovers that words and imagination provide an escape from the events unfolding around her. This lite-historical tosh has absolutely nothing in common with the power of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Based on the beloved bestselling book, THE BOOK THIEF tells the inspirational story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives. Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in this inspiring film based on the bestseller about Liesel, (Sophie Nlisse), a girl adopted by a German couple (Rush and Watson) who hide a Jew (Ben Schnetzer) from Hitler's army. And as war breaks out, she is taught to love writing by Max (Ben Schnetzer), the Jew that her foster parents are hiding in the cellar, and whose deferential friendship and gratitude are the guarantee of their good-Germanness. Liesel is forced to join the Hitler Youth, but is secretly disgusted by the Nazis' book-burning displays and conceives a love of literature by "borrowing" books from the Mayor's wife. It is this trio's courage and victimhood that take centre-stage. Sophie NĂ©lisse plays Liesel, a young girl in 1930s Germany who is left to kindly but harassed foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) by her fugitive Communist mother. I have not read the book, but the film looks like a creepy new version of the Anne Frank story, with the leading character recast as a brave and pretty little Aryan girl the brutal reality of the Holocaust is not dwelt upon. T here's an unsettling sort of deja vu to be had in watching this strange and saccharine film, based on the 2005 young-adult bestseller by Australian writer Markus Zusak.
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