The Kite Runner (2007)


Director: Marc Foster.
Producer: Walter Parkes, Laurie McDonald, Sam Mendes, Sidney Kimmel.

Setting:

The film opens in San Francisco at the present time whit some flashbacks and flash forwards in Kabul (between 1978 and 1979), Fremont, California (1988) and some places in the Taliban Afghanistan (2000).

Main Characters:

Amir: The narrator and main character of the story. The son of a rich man of Kabul. He is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his best friend when he most needed him.

Hassan: The son of the Amir's father servant. A Hazara boy who is unfairly treated for the bully boys of the town. He became the best Amir's best friend.

Agha Sahib: Amir's father called for his son as Baba (dad). A widower businessman who had to take care of his son since he was a baby. He took his boy out of the country because of the war and the danger that the fundamentalists were representing.

Ali: Hassan's adoptive father and servant of Agha Sahib. He loves his son and he is willing to do everything for him. He keeps a big secret that will change the course of the story.

Sohrab: Hassan's son. He became orphan because of the endless war that hit Afghanistan since his parents were children. He tries to survive in a very difficult environment where hi was sold to the Talibans to be raped and phisically abused.

Assef: The antagonist of the story. Amir and Hassan's bully. A racist boy who tries to exterminate the Hazaras in Kabul.

Rahim Khan: Agha Sahib's best friend who knows all his secrets. The father figure for Amir and accomplice.

Farid: The family's driver. He helps Amir to find Sohrab.

Soraya: Amir's wife. An Afghan woman that hates the way people from his culture treat women.

Kamal and Wali: Accomplices of Assef. They help Assef to abuse another children.


Summary:

This story is based in the Khaled Hosseini's book of the same name and it's about Amir who is the only child of a very important man in the city that loves to help people and be praised for other, but at the same time he underestimate his son because he thinks he's a weak boy. For that reason he became Hassan's friend because he has the strong side that he hasn't.

Every year people in the town celebrate The Kites Day with a competition where all boys in the city trie to bring down the other kites.

That year Amir and Hassan were the champions but the day didn't finish as they wanted. Assef, Kamal and Wali raped Hassan. Amir couldn't do anything and he felt guilty and no more talked to Hassan.

In that days the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the Talibans appeared to start the war in Afghanistan. For that reason Amir and his father had to flee to The United States.

In the Unated States they became merchants and then Amir knew Soraya, a beautiful woman and he felt in love with her. Amir studied at a public university and wrote a book called The Kite Runner and before he started the promotion he recieved an important call. He had to travel to Afghanistan and rescue his nephew, Hassan's son.


Once in Afghanistan, Rahim Khan told Amir the situation in the country and the truth about Hassan and he ask him that save Sohrab. Amir goes to an orphanage to find Sohrab but the child wasn't there and he had to travel around the country to find him.

Amir found Sohrab. He was used as a sexual object to satisfy the lowest instincs of the Taliban people where he was. Surprisingly the person who has the little boy was the same that raped Hassan, the terrible Assef.



The End:

Finally, both back to San Francisco to live as a family. At the begining it wasn't easy but Amir did all to make Sohrab feel as a part of the family.








This is my favorite movie. I really enjoy to watch it because talks about friendship and the strong familiar bonds that cross borders. Maybe some times we don't do the right things, but destiny gives second chances to correct the mistakes we make in the past. I rate this movie with a ten, because you can find all you want, a good story, adventure, drama, and people facing life adversities. I hope you could see this movie and enjoy it.