Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day when Amir fails to save his friend from brutal neighborhood bullies. Amir and Hassan become separated and as first the Soviets and then the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan Amir and his father escape to the United States to pursue a new life. Years later Amir now an accomplished author living in San Francisco is called back to Kabul to right the wrongs he and his father committed years ago.System Requirements:Running Time: 127 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/INNOCENCE LOST Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097361179742 Manufacturer No: 117974
Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence and harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) presents a painterly vision of Afghanistan before the Soviet tanks, before the Taliban--lush, verdant, fertile--in its landscape and in its people and their history and hopes. The story follows two young boys' friendship, tested beyond endurance, and the haunting of their adult selves by what happened in their youth--and what horrors befall their country in the meantime. The performances of the two boys--Zekeria Ebrahimi (Amir) and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada (Hassan)--are the film's strongest, unforced and gently evocative. The penance paid by their adult selves is foreshadowed, but never predictable--and the metaphor of innocence lost, a common theme in Forster's work, keeps the film, like the title kites, truly aloft.--A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
" I feel like a tourist in my homeland"-Khalid Abdalla(Amir):
The movie tells the story of a childhood friendship in Afghanistan that is interrupted by a sad incident and explores the possibility of redemption and the correction of past mistakes.
The scenery and direction of the movie are fascinating, aside from the extremely annoying subtitles which detracted from my enjoyment of the movie:
1-They were light with a light back ground.
2-They didn't last on the screen long enough to be read
3-worst of all , the subtitles had some Islamic words... more info
kite runner:
product arrived with writing on dvd...no insert...do not mark as "as new" because it was in "good" condition not "very good" or "as new"
Interesting, envolving, multi-culture:
I loved reading the book so much that I was sad when it was over. The way the author writes catches your attention and envolves your emotions. When you have to stop to read you feel you need to go back to book again soon. It shows an unusual perspective of children's cruelty and the guilt carried to adulthood. The book is richly permeated with afghan culture in such a way that you find it pleasant to learn about their different life way.
Beautiful, Powerful Film. Worth Your Time to Watch:
I never truly understood the extremely powerful concept of shame in Islamic societies like that in Afganistan before I saw this film. The central themes here are of course sin and redemption. The sin is personally experienced by two boys as shame: the shame of weakness, the shame of cowardice, the shame of guilt, the shame of personal betrayal of deeply held principles, the shame of failure that people on the surface see as success. Shame all around, shame passed down also from father to son in the form of... more info
