The Book Thief follows a young girl named Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nelisse) in 1938 Germany. It follows her emotional roller coaster of being adopted by two parents living in the middle of Nazi Germany rule. Hans Hubermann (Geoffrey Rush), Rosa Hubermann (Emily Watson) give one of the better performances between two parents that I have seen. Geoffrey Rush plays the heart-warming father that you cling to the entire film based on his forgiveness of that actions of Liesel, while her mother tends to be the tough on young Liesel. The movie does create many beautiful scenes showing the times of Germany under Nazi rule. It gives a great feel of what Germany may have been like with the use of the sets involved from the old stone roads, just to the way the characters dressed. As the movie moves on with good pace, a young Jewish man shows up to the doorstep of the Huberman's home. We get a little story filler as Hans informs as that the father of the young Jewish man saved his life during World War I. The rising action of the movie is when the protection of that young Jewish man gets tougher and tougher as Nazi officers start to search basements looking for any captives.
This film does a very good job of helping you fall in love with the characters as their go through their troubles, which I think is the strongest point of the movie. It is powered by the actual emotions of young Liesel who is an innocent girl who falls in love with books as her main motivator to keep going on. The use of a narrator for the film, who we figure out to be death himself speaking adds an emotional level to the film, you almost cling to the narrators voice periodically through the movie for the clarity that it brings to the movie and is definitely a nice touch to a good film.
I give this movie a 6.5 out of 10.
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