Who can tell us the tragedies and consequences of war better than a citizen of Afghanistan?what it feels like to loose your inheritance and country forever?No story have been told about this but from the movie kite runner Khalid Hosseini made us realize.The kite runner is wonderful movie based on his novel,very brilliantly directed by Marc Forster and having superb performances from every single cast.
the whole scenario of movie revolves around the 25 years of history of Afghanistan revealed through the story of a boy Amir.the events that occurs and change the course of his country drastically also changed his life.the movie is a very captivating,heart-touching and poignant melodrama that garner all emotions of childhood-friendship,father-son relationship,romance,sacrifice,tragedy,betrayal,courage and redemption.
The story can be divided into three acts. In first act Afghanistan of late 70's before Russian invasion has shown when there was peace and freedom in Afghanistan.first act describe the childhood of amir in city of Kabul where he lived with his father and his friend Hassan,a very cute hazara boy with china-doll face who is the son of their servant but he is more like a brother to Amir.Amir who want to be a writer have very estranged relationship with his father. Hassan who is very good kite runner,he help Amir to win a kite tournament to help Amir to earn his father's love. Instead of different ethnicity amir(pushtun) and Hassan(hazara) have very devouringly close and strong friendship and movie portrayed it beautifully with wonderful acting from both child actors. The tragic events that fall out on hassan due to his ethnic difference and betrayal from Amir due to his cowardliness afflicted me deeply.the first act show the turning political conditions and eventually the invasion of Russia which forced amir and his democratic father fled from Afghanistan to U.S.A.
The second act follows amir's youth in U.S.A.Amir is now became accustomed to American culture finished his studies and ready to became a writer.His father who was once rich and powerful now lives in a pitiful condition selling goods in markets and working in shops,the sparkness and robustness of his face has now been over-shadowed by his continuous sadness and sorrow of losing his inheritance.Amir fall in love with an Afghan girl soraya.His father who is suffering from a dreadful disease do him a last favor by asking soraya's family permission to marry his son.The tragedy brought Amir very close to his father and the depiction of strong bond bw. them is very touching.Amir married soraya and his first novel get published.Then he received a letter from his uncle which compel him to return to Afghanistan again to redeem from a sin he did in his childhood.
The third act follows the search of Amir in Afghanistan and through Amir we see what Afghanistan has became in the reign of Taliban.The painful depiction of child abuse was harrowing and unbearable to watch. The events that occurs at the ending are considered by many as over-dramatization of story but i totally disagree with them.In fact i felt completely satisfied with the movie.the movie had such a perfect plot development that the story felt like a journey to me.It was a journey of Amir for his redemption and i felt like travelling with him and when he finally achieved for what he went in Afghanistan,he became free of every guilt,of what he did in his childhood to his beloved friend.every pain of him of being exiled from his country and loosing everything seemed to be vanished by his single act of heroism,when he finally conquered all of his fears.The movie was seamless throughout from beginning to the end and events that occurred no matter how melodramatic they were seems relevant to the plot development and purpose for what movie had made.
I also disagree with all those critics who bashed the movie for being over-emotional.i will say them to quit being so over-practical.They are missing the whole point of the movie.Every single scene and emotion in the movie was purposeful and nothing in the movie seemed to me like out of place or unnecessary.
I haven't read the novel and i can't say that this movie did justice to it or not, but i can say that the kite runner is absolutely complete as a movie and story telling.yes,this movie have its flaws and achievements like every movie does,but the greatest achievement of this movie is that the movie garners a nation's history with all the human emotions in it and influence of a nation's tragedy on it's peoples at the personal level.
the whole scenario of movie revolves around the 25 years of history of Afghanistan revealed through the story of a boy Amir.the events that occurs and change the course of his country drastically also changed his life.the movie is a very captivating,heart-touching and poignant melodrama that garner all emotions of childhood-friendship,father-son relationship,romance,sacrifice,tragedy,betrayal,courage and redemption.
The story can be divided into three acts. In first act Afghanistan of late 70's before Russian invasion has shown when there was peace and freedom in Afghanistan.first act describe the childhood of amir in city of Kabul where he lived with his father and his friend Hassan,a very cute hazara boy with china-doll face who is the son of their servant but he is more like a brother to Amir.Amir who want to be a writer have very estranged relationship with his father. Hassan who is very good kite runner,he help Amir to win a kite tournament to help Amir to earn his father's love. Instead of different ethnicity amir(pushtun) and Hassan(hazara) have very devouringly close and strong friendship and movie portrayed it beautifully with wonderful acting from both child actors. The tragic events that fall out on hassan due to his ethnic difference and betrayal from Amir due to his cowardliness afflicted me deeply.the first act show the turning political conditions and eventually the invasion of Russia which forced amir and his democratic father fled from Afghanistan to U.S.A.
The second act follows amir's youth in U.S.A.Amir is now became accustomed to American culture finished his studies and ready to became a writer.His father who was once rich and powerful now lives in a pitiful condition selling goods in markets and working in shops,the sparkness and robustness of his face has now been over-shadowed by his continuous sadness and sorrow of losing his inheritance.Amir fall in love with an Afghan girl soraya.His father who is suffering from a dreadful disease do him a last favor by asking soraya's family permission to marry his son.The tragedy brought Amir very close to his father and the depiction of strong bond bw. them is very touching.Amir married soraya and his first novel get published.Then he received a letter from his uncle which compel him to return to Afghanistan again to redeem from a sin he did in his childhood.
The third act follows the search of Amir in Afghanistan and through Amir we see what Afghanistan has became in the reign of Taliban.The painful depiction of child abuse was harrowing and unbearable to watch. The events that occurs at the ending are considered by many as over-dramatization of story but i totally disagree with them.In fact i felt completely satisfied with the movie.the movie had such a perfect plot development that the story felt like a journey to me.It was a journey of Amir for his redemption and i felt like travelling with him and when he finally achieved for what he went in Afghanistan,he became free of every guilt,of what he did in his childhood to his beloved friend.every pain of him of being exiled from his country and loosing everything seemed to be vanished by his single act of heroism,when he finally conquered all of his fears.The movie was seamless throughout from beginning to the end and events that occurred no matter how melodramatic they were seems relevant to the plot development and purpose for what movie had made.
I also disagree with all those critics who bashed the movie for being over-emotional.i will say them to quit being so over-practical.They are missing the whole point of the movie.Every single scene and emotion in the movie was purposeful and nothing in the movie seemed to me like out of place or unnecessary.
I haven't read the novel and i can't say that this movie did justice to it or not, but i can say that the kite runner is absolutely complete as a movie and story telling.yes,this movie have its flaws and achievements like every movie does,but the greatest achievement of this movie is that the movie garners a nation's history with all the human emotions in it and influence of a nation's tragedy on it's peoples at the personal level.