The Kite Runner

Buy This Item The Kite Runner by Dreamworks Video  Available from Amazon  $16.99  on 8-10-2008     Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, <I>The Kite Runner</I> will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence and harsh reality, and dreamy memory, <I>The Kite Runner</I> faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (<I>Monster's Ball</I>, <I>Finding Neverland</I>) 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.--<I>A.T. Hurley</I> Reader Reviews Kabul before and after the Russian besiege. Two kids who share an innocent and sincere friendship; one of them - Amir - is the son of the wealthy master of the zone; the other -Hassan- is just the forgotten son of a humble servant who has served during more than forty years: Both of them share dreams and illusions; tastes and livings. The great day has come; the tournament of kites is one of the febrile traditions in Afghanistan, and Hassan demonstrates his powerful intuition and profound skillfulness becoming the winner. But the tragedy spies on the darkness and we will witness one of the most powerful life's experiences and turning points when the political winds turn over to the left wing. What begins as a simple story becomes a mesmerizing tapestry of emotions, affective memories that shift the peaceful existence of Amir in North America, who is forced to return, after twenty years to reencounter with himself and an unforgettable ethic debt, who must pay. A full rounded film that should deserve more attention because of its powerful message and crude metaphor.

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