The Reflection after Watching the Movie “The Reader”

I was interested in this movie before watching because it won lots of awards around the world. The heroine in this movie is Kate Winslet who is a well-known actress of her exquisite performance. She also won the best actress award in the Oscar Academy Awards. After finish watching this movie, I think the honor is definitely based on actual achievements. In this movie, Kate Winslet acts an impressive interpretation of a woman who hides a secret which at the end leads to her miserable afterlife.
She falls in love with a youth but leaves without giving a word. After the youth grows up and become an intelligent lawyer, he finally finds out the secret of this woman whom he was in love with. He at the end understands that why she refuses to read the menu when they go to the restaurant? Why she likes the kid to read a novel every day? Why she leaves without telling him the reason? Why she quits her job and then joins Nazi?
Looked like a confidence woman, the woman has a huge sense of inferiority - because she is an illiterate person. The reason why she quits her job as an office worker and then working as a janitor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp is because that the later job does not need the ability of recognizing words. She was fabricated charged as the main murderer of the camp. Because she is afraid to tell that she is illiterate, she does not make any justification. However, watching things happen, the youth does not tell the truth at all. The woman was sentenced life imprisonment.
She learns how to recognize the words in the jail and thought the youth is still in love with her. After they meet each other, the youth gives an aloof attitude which causes the woman commits suicide.
I cannot understand why the woman would rather spend her life in the prison rather than admitting that she cannot read words. Then I think that to the woman, admitting illiteracy is more shameful, dishonorable and criminal than killing 300 people in Auschwitz. After several years, the boy becomes a talented man; he is not just merely a youth but a “somebody”. But the man is still quite coward to defend the woman’s position. To hide his weakness, he tries to judge the woman by an ethical aspect, so he gives an aloof attitude to her in the prison. The woman in the jail’s only hope disintegrates soon than she chooses another drastic way to finish her life. After she’s dead, the man can finally face himself then tells his daughter this regretful past. This movie gives me an idea which is the woman is dead because she has kept a secret, while the man rebirth because he faces his inconvenient secret.