I haven’t seen Revolutionary Road for the same reason...it looks too depressing to spend $10 on a Friday night to see! What a buzz kill that looks to be, lol. I will probably rent the Reader when it comes out on DVD...from what I’d seen, it looked like it tried to humanize Winslet’s character. The danger is in doing that, there is a tendency to excuse the grave mistakes the main character made. I was wondering if the Reader did that.
From what I’ve read, Winslet is extraordinary in her transformation of the character in her final years. They say that you really can’t recognize that it’s Kate Winslet.