The makers of the Oscar-nominated film, “The Reader,” issued a statement on Friday defending the film from what they called “fringe criticism” that it is a Holocaust denial film.
What’s going here? “Fringe” people writing on “the fringe” – that would be author Ron Rosenbaum (“Explaining Hitler”) on Huffpo and Rod Lurie (“The Contender”) on Slate – have slammed the film for validating a defense of indefensible actions by the film’s main character, Hannah (the nominated Kate Winslet).
Leave it to Harvey to pull out a cannon when a water gun would do.
How many people have heard of this ‘controversy’? “The Reader’ has been a huge, best-selling book for years, and the movie – seen by a handful of moviegoers thus far – is not new either.