“The Kite Runner” is a 2007 film directed by Marc Forster, based on Khaled Hosseini’s best seller of the same name . After living a few years in America, an Afghan writer returns to his homeland, a country dominated by the Taliban, to find out what happened to the son of his best friend. A work that is often seen after having already read the book, but which can be appreciated even without having done it yet. Thus it is possible to best admire the intensity of an actor like Homayoun Ershadi in the complex role of Amir’s father. “The kite runner”, a book about friendship stronger than the war
“The kite runner” is a book by Khaled Hosseini published in 2003 and is an important story to tell the friendshipThe plot of The Kite Runner
Kabul 1978. Amir and son of Baba, a wealthy Pashtun man. The best friend of him and Hassan, son of the servant of the house and of the inferior ethnicity of the Hazara. Both of them are very fond of flying kites for which competitions are planned that involve many children of the city. The winner is the one who manages to keep their kite in flight last after everyone else has had the wire cut. Amir, who has regained his father’s esteem right after the victory (together with Hassan) in the most important race of a little later, witnesses (without having the courage to intervene) to the sodomy of Hassan by a trio of rich and racists. From that moment on, a sense of guilt will carry him away from his friend whom he sees as a living denunciation of his cowardice.Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini: “The Afghan people do not deserve it”
The writer born in Kabul commented on the latest sad developments linked to the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan, his homeland. Differences with the book
Compared to Hosseini’s novel, in the film Farid does not have his left hand mutilated by a mine and Amir does not meet the beggar who tells him about his mother. In the book, Amir and Hassan’s victory in the kite-flying tournament occurs in 1975, while in the film at the beginning of Amir’s flashback immediately after Rahim Khan’s phone call, a subtitle appears saying that the events took place in 1978. In the book, Hassan does not he can read and Amir makes fun of him for his illiteracy. It is not said that Ali was crippled by polio, nor that Hassan has a cleft lip.
In the book, being the son of a German, Assef is blond with blue eyes and taller than his peers, in the film no. Also in the book Assef gives Amir the biography of Adolf Hitler and has the admiration of Baba, in the film these things are not said.
Baba’s character has slightly changed: in the book, he is a sturdy man with a stiff character who never laughs and spends very little time on his son; in the film he has a more athletic body, a more sunny disposition and a less hard relationship with Amir. It is suggested that Amir and his father-in-law have a conflicting relationship, while in the book General Taheri is described as a very traditionalist man who nevertheless has great respect for Amir. “Nobody cares about us”, the message of an Afghan girl
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When Amir discovers the truth about his father’s affair, in the book he makes a rant and runs away, instead in the film his reaction and much more contained. It is not said by Rahim Khan that Sanaubar, wife of Ali and mother of Hassan, found her son as an old woman and took care of Sohrab. In the film, the piece where Amir meets Wahid, the brother of his driver, was cut. In the book, when he discovers that Zaman, the director of the orphanage where Sorhab is imprisoned, sells them to the Taliban, and Farid yells at him and threatens him; in the film and Amir.
Finally, some scenes that occurred immediately after recovering Sohrab are cut in the film: Amir’s stay in the hospital and his nightmares; the visit to the mosque in Islamabad which will later justify the child’s escape; the great difficulty of returning to America with the boy and the adoption; Sorhab’s desperation when he cuts his veins to avoid ending up in an orphanage; the rift between him and his uncle.

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