Perhaps one of  the most marvelous living director in the world.

这些天在重庆，电脑上不了网，里面就一个我下载的《朗读者》，反复看了几遍，难以自拔。

这是一个关于爱情的电影，一段平凡的相遇，错成终生的遗憾

导演用这种遗憾带进回忆里去剪切画面，往来交织，唏嘘不已，视角便跟随着男主人翁的眼睛，来往于人生的历程里，体会他在每一个时期不同的内心世界

电影是直达内心的，没有任何一种工具可以像电影那样赤裸裸将内心展现，而最讳莫如深的就是隐私。

正如影片里面说的，西方文学最大的精髓就是对个人隐私的揭示。

天才的导演，是任意来往穿梭在时间和空间的片段里，紧紧的扣住故事的线索，网罗结构

我们看，这不仅是视觉的力量，更是文学的力量

Stephen Daldry的电影里，有深深的文学精神，也就是literacy

电影的名字就叫朗读者，因此朗读的是文学作品，文学作品就成为影片穿针引线的工具，文字也是女主角最大的隐私，文字不仅仅成为联系心灵的纽带，而且成为联系空间的绳索，书信和录音，是男人表达爱意最厚实的礼物，将现实和封闭世界联系起来，成为一种遗憾，也是最美的语言。

Stephen Daldry善于将英国经典的文学性带入电影里，他的前一部电影《the hours》是关于英国女作家Virginia Woolf的小说 Mrs. Dallowaythe novel's 原小说来往于过去现实中，也跳往于女主人翁的精神世界中，从而构建了整个故事和小说精神。  Stephen Daldry优秀的掌握了这种往来穿梭的技巧，通过微小的细节，动作，表演，物件，特写，前景变换，同一位置的摄影机运动，潇洒的跨越于过去和未来，独步江湖。

这种交错时空呼吸剪切的能力被Stephen Daldry发扬到当代的极致了，他的每一部作品里都渗透着。

我们痴迷于感情中，戏里戏外，是怎样爱上，陷入，再到无可自拔甚至于终生的遗憾，全在镜头之中，有张力的镜头。

当男主人翁成长到23岁的法学院研究生，他无法挽回突然在庭审上邂逅的消失多年的恋人汉娜的命运，所有的人把责任指责到汉娜身上，摄影机交错在指证人，汉娜的眼睛，法官大声说需要核对汉娜的笔迹以做出最终判决，辩护律师紧张申诉，一张白纸轻轻放到汉娜面前，特写的笔轻轻落下，汉娜看下去

镜头切到麦克，他深思着，慢慢的抬起头，摄影机切入过去的时空中，裸体的汉娜将书本交给麦克让他朗读；摄影机再回到深思的麦克，慢慢推进：汉娜将书轻轻的扔掉；再推进深思的麦克，他欣喜的看着汉娜，汉娜无法点菜，让他点；摄影机最后来到坐席里的麦克，紧接着跳到那张空白的纸，切到汉娜的眼睛： 我不写，我认罪！

几组镜头的组接呈现出本片最大的秘密，尽在不言中啊！

Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1961) is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated director.

Daldry was born in Dorset, England the son of bank manager Patrick Daldry and singer, Cherry Thompson.^[1] He was educated at the University of Sheffield before taking an apprenticeship at the city's Crucible Theatre from 1985-1988. Whilst at the University of Sheffield, Daldry was Chairman of SuTCo (Sheffield University Theatre Company). He trained at East 15 Acting School, London.

Daldry began his career at the Sheffield Crucible with Artistic Director Clare Venables where he directed many productions. He also headed many productions at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was also Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 1992-8, where he headed the £26 million development scheme. He was also Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London (1989-92) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984-6). He is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. He was the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He won awards on Broadway as well as the West End.

Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot. His next film was The Hours, and it won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Nicole Kidman. Recently, he directed a stage musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, and a film version of The Reader, based on the book of the same name and starring Kate Winslet, David Kross, and Ralph Fiennes. Again, it won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Kate Winslet. He has received three Academy Award nominations for directing for all three of his films.

Daldry was planning to direct a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay in 2005.^[2] In the ensuing three years, the project was cancelled and reinitiated several times, and in late 2006 was partially cast with Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire. According to Chabon, production then stalled due to "studio-politics kinds of reasons that I'm not privy to," and as of April 2007 remains inactive.^[3]

Daldry, who refuses to identify as specifically straight or gay, was married in 2001 to performance artist Lucy Sexton with whom he has a daughter, Annabel Clare, born in 2003.^[4][5] He previously dated set designer Ian MacNeil.^[6]