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Ulices 2022-03-21 09:01:59

First of all, I have to say that the film is not as good as the book. Perhaps this is a common problem with widescreen adaptations of best-selling novels. If you haven't read the original, you'll feel out of control during the rushed narrative. Because there are too many details of the original work, the director wants to talk to Pan Chen, but does not give the audience much time to breathe and digest. Time, politics and adultery are all so immutable. In contrast, persistence, survival and redemption are also so stubborn and reborn.
First of all I would say that The Kite Runner is a good novel. It talks about redemption and growth in a cycle, about death and rebirth in a period of history, and about the past and next life of a lie. Simple and honest HANSAN. Just like a mirror, it looks at AMIR and the whole of Afghanistan. It is often the writers who are under heavy pressure that let the ordinary family love shine in the text. The children in the movie, only little Hansan, made me feel the same as the original form in the book. As for the details - there was no heavy rain roaring at the moment of leaving AMIR's house; Hansan's children's admission to the United States was not hindered by nationality issues; even Hansan's death was hastily brought up in the narrative. Movies shouldn't leave me with as many associations as books. At the end, the handling of being too faithful to the original makes me feel a little far-fetched.
Aside from these, there should still be some small touches for those who read this story for the first time. Sorrow for the lost place of God. Heartbroken over a period of decades of redemption.

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  • Elinore 2022-04-23 07:02:16

    Except for the soundtrack and scenery, the rest of the feeling is average. @2017-01-24 14:48:13

  • Florence 2022-04-23 07:02:16

    The theme of the novel is the redemption of human nature, while the movie has become a "political propaganda film", which omits many touching details in the novel, and only the first half can be watched. After the protagonist goes to the United States, the plot begins to go wrong. The only thing that supported me after watching the movie was the feeling of the novel, but as a movie, its picture and sound effects are still worthy of recognition

The Kite Runner quotes

  • Amir: [explaining Sohrab's presence] You see, General Sahib, my father slept with his servant's wife, and she bore him a son named Hassan. Hassan is dead now. That boy sleeping in the other room is Hassan's son. He's my nephew. That's what you tell people when they ask. And one more thing, General Sahib: you will never again refer to him as "a Hazara boy" in my presence. He has a name, and it's Sohrab.

  • Baba: [as Dr. Starobin examines him] Where are you from?

    Dr. Starobin: I grew up in Michigan. Came out here for medical school. Once you get used to that California sunshine...

    Baba: But your family?

    Dr. Starobin: My family? We're originally from Russia.

    [Baba shoves him away, and is next seen with a different doctor]