hey guys welcome back to explainer x today i'm going to recap a 2008 romance drama movie
name the reader so let's begin the movie begins with a 1995 berlin germany scene where we see a
man named michael berg making breakfast last night he was with a woman he makes breakfast for her too
here we find out that michael is a famous lawyer he has got divorced and he has a daughter who is
studying in a foreign country after some time the woman leaves michael goes to the window the train
was going outside seeing this he remembers his story and with this the movie goes into flashback
1958 michael was then studying in the school he was 14 years old one day while coming back home
from school suddenly his health deteriorates after getting off the train near the door of
an apartment he vomits then the train conductor hannah comes and helps him she also clears vomit
then she leaves him at home michael has scarlet fever so he will have to stay at home for the
next three months when michael recovers then he tells his mom that the day i became ill
a woman helped me she had come to drop me at home too her mom asks for hannah's address because she
can thank hannah but michael reaches hannah's house with flowers by himself hannah asks him
about his health she had to go to work so she tells michael to wait outside she also says
that she will talk to michael on the way to work but michael is watching hannah from outside while
she is changing clothes unexpectedly michael is caught hannah sees him and that day he runs away
since then he used to watch her silently but did not dare to go and talk to her finally one day
he goes to meet hannah again hannah tells him to fetch coal from below when he brings coal
then his clothes and his face had become dirty then hannah says in this condition you cannot
go home come let me clean you saying that she starts bathing him then she takes off her clothes
by herself and hugs michael and says this is what you wanted that's why you have been following me
for so long michael is unable to answer hannah and both of them are intimate when he comes back home
his dad asks him where were you for so long he says i was lost then says his sister you are lying
no one lost in his hometown but his mom supports him she says michael doesn't lie michael requests
his dad that from tomorrow he has to go to school the doctor has refused he thinks that he is all
right he is believed to be dad he goes to visit hannah every day while bunking school and both are
intimate after so many days they have asked each other's names and we also learned that hannah is
35 years old and michael is 14 years old one day hannah asks him to read a book of literature to
him she also says that michael first you will first read the book then both of us will be
intimate michael agrees and does exactly that then one day michael sells some of his stamps from his
stamp collection to instigate him to go on a trip because he was able to manage the trip he sets out
to roam the countryside on a cycle they were both very happy that michael was in love with him and
maybe hannah was in love with him too going to a restaurant to have lunch where hannah sees the
menu card she does not order herself she says the order that michael will give she will eat the same
bean thing hannah too significant to this scene is very much about which we will come to know later
on the other hand the waiter thinks that hannah is michael's mom to prove him wrong michael kisses
hannah in front of him then they both go to a church where prayer was going on their hannah
becomes very emotional both of them spend some time near danick lake michael was writing a poem
for hannah but unfortunately she could not hear it the movie comes in present time and michael
has the same poem in his hand which he wrote for hannah he goes to court in connection with a case
sitting in the courtroom he remembers old things and with this the movie again goes into flashback
there was a girl in michael's school sophie she liked him but michael used to ignore him he liked
hannah without thinking of anyone then one day hannah gets promoted and she gets an office job
but for some reason hannah was not happy on the day of michael's birthday raging rages on
him so michael convinces her and last time they both get intimate then without telling michael
hannah goes far away forever michael goes to his house and sees that the house is completely empty
hannah is gone her heart breaks after this eight years pass michael is more than 23 years old and
he studies in a lawyer school there is a seminar the student is then taken to see a case trial this
case was going on those women who is alleged to have left 300 victorious women to die on a burning
church in the year 1944 detmartus took place in germany when the surviving prisoners were taken
to work fully by force they were then sent to concentration camps where they were tortured
this woman was working as a guard in this death march and hannah was also present in them seeing
hannah in the courtroom michael becomes fond of it he slowly started forgetting everything but
seeing hannah today he remembers the old things again she is the main witness of this case ilana
mather beyond the living lady she has written about her and her mother it came out alive from
both the concentrations she identifies hannah and the rest of the women she also says this
hannah randomly used to suck on a person who used to read her book when hannah is asked then she
admits that those people used to suck 10 people who were later killed see that the empty space
always remains where it cannot be said hannah always used to select weak girls she used to ask
him to read the book and listen then later he too was killed she also says that the death of those
300 living women in the church was not an accident hannah has not written the report that has been
written by making her an accident someone else has copied his sign but the other ladies accompanying
hannah gives statements against him he says that night the in-charge was hannah she deliberately
did not open the church door so that no one could run away only alana and her mother could run away
this incident was falsely reported by hannah only then when hannah is asked to give a handwriting
sample she refuses suddenly she confesses all the sins at this time michael has to realize
that hannah is illiterate and this thing hides the most that is why she herself did not read books
and that day she could not order herself in the restaurant when hannah got promotion then she got
an office job she had understood that now everyone will know that she is illiterate that's why she
left that job and who had joined such a guard at the concentration camp michael understands all
these women together are trapping hannah he asks his professor for help but he cannot do anything
because hannah herself has confessed to the crime and is hiding from everyone that she is illiterate
now there is only one way in the next hearing hannah has to be told that she is illiterate
michael thinks that he will be able to convince hannah so he goes to jail to meet her but he
leaves without meeting her he could have saved hannah if he wanted but he wants to inflict the
same pain that hannah had given him and he also considers hannah to be somewhat responsible for
the death of those living women in the next scene hannah is sentenced to life imprisonment and the
rest of the women gets a sentence of only four years and three months after this michael gets
busy with his life he got married and had the girl julia but he could never get emotionally attached
to his wife he still loves hannah so he gets divorced he also turns away from his daughter one
day he finds the same old books which he used to read to hannah he reads and records the books and
sends those recordings to hannah after listening to the recording she learns to read and write on
her own by taking some books from the jail library after a few days she starts writing the latter to
michael but michael does not reply to him hannah has been in jail for 20 years finally she is being
released the prison borden asks michael for help for hannah as hannah has no relative in home she
has to contact michael only michelle finds a job in a house for hannah goes to meet him on
that day exactly one week before his release from jail he maintains a little distance from hannah
and behaves formally hannah says she never thought before the trial what a mistake she had made such
a guard but now she is unable to think of anything other than him she is starting to feel guilty now
on the day she was about to leave michael goes on receiving it he goes and sees it that hannah
has committed suicide she leaves one ladder and one piggy bank for michael there was some money
in that piggy bank this money is the savings of hannah's whole life her last wish is that this
money should be given to any one of those jews prisoners and she gives the responsibility of
this to michael he goes to new york meeting alana tells him everything about her and hannah's past
relationship what he does not tell anyone till today he tells ilana about hannah being illiterate
and also about his last wish but alana refuses to take this money then michael says this money
will be donated to any jews welfare organization which helps people elana also agrees on this she
only keeps that piggy bank with her because he had the same piggy bank that was snatched from him in
that camp in the present day of 1995 michael meets his daughter julia recently she has come back from
paris and she is now 21 years old he takes julia to that church where he and hannah came during a
cycle trip 40 years ago borrowed as hannah's grave after going to him michael starts telling julia
about the relation between him and hannah and with this the movie ends here i hope you enjoyed
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