The Kite Runner
starring: L. Peter Callender, Larry Brown, Saïd Taghmaoui, Shaun Toub, Homayoun Ershadi
directed by: Marc Forster
directed by: Marc Forster
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AS YOUNG BOYS, AMIR & HASSAN WERE INSEPERABLE FRIENDS UNTIL ONE FATEFUL ACT TORE THEM APART. YEARS LATER, AMIR WILL EMBARK ON A DANGEROUS QUEST TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST & REDEEM HIMSELF IN WAYS HE NEVER EXPECTED.
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Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence and harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) 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.--A.T. Hurley
AS YOUNG BOYS, AMIR & HASSAN WERE INSEPERABLE FRIENDS UNTIL ONE FATEFUL ACT TORE THEM APART. YEARS LATER, AMIR WILL EMBARK ON A DANGEROUS QUEST TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST & REDEEM HIMSELF IN WAYS HE NEVER EXPECTED.
Amazon.com:
Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence and harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) 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.--A.T. Hurley
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- Very well done
Very few, if any, movies can match great books whence they came word-for-word, scene-for-scene. It's just not possible. Books and movies are different communications media. Take "The Lord of the Rings" movies, for example. Those are non-stop action movies--the mere skeleton of the books, omitting many ancillary characters and tangential story lines. The same with this story. The movie very ably captured the heartrending essence of the book. Excellent performances all around. If you want all the details ... Read More
Rating: - Pitch-perfect Detail in Storytelling
This was about my only chance to see this movie, as it opened and shut - if indeed it ever showed in my home town - with the alacrity of a clam between high and low tide. Nothing could be more out of the mainstream than a subtitled movie, starring unknown and/or foreign actors, in the harsh high country of Afghanistan during the relatively idyllic period before the Soviet invasion, and under the joyless and hypocritical rule of theTaliban, who turned the place into sort of religious concentration camp, ... Read More
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- really well made , but...
I absolutely loved the book, but there was something off about the film. The story revolves around a friendship between two boys growing up in Afghanistan -- starting in the 1970s and following them as they grow and as the political climate in Afghanistan changes. The book/film is not only about the characters, but also about the complexities of their environment. It was that environment, beautifully rendered in the novel, that I thought didn't come through as well in the film.
It's not that ... Read More
Rating: - One of the BEST!
One of the most amazing movies ever.Only one hard-to-watch scene, but part of the great story.
Rating: - Blu-Ray Review
The Kite Runner was an excellent book. The film is also very good, though its ending is slightly different from the book (and in my opinion, more logical then the ending the author used). Others have talked about the merits of the film. I have a plasma 50 inch FPT5084 Samsung and a Sony Playstation for source. Technically, the film benefits from blu-ray treatment. The vistas are crisp and detailed, the skin tones natural, the "CGI kites" not so bothersome. I didn't notice any artifacts, and there is excellent ... Read More
- Very well doneVery few, if any, movies can match great books whence they came word-for-word, scene-for-scene. It's just not possible. Books and movies are different communications media. Take "The Lord of the Rings" movies, for example. Those are non-stop action movies--the mere skeleton of the books, omitting many ancillary characters and tangential story lines. The same with this story. The movie very ably captured the heartrending essence of the book. Excellent performances all around. If you want all the details ... Read More
- Pitch-perfect Detail in StorytellingThis was about my only chance to see this movie, as it opened and shut - if indeed it ever showed in my home town - with the alacrity of a clam between high and low tide. Nothing could be more out of the mainstream than a subtitled movie, starring unknown and/or foreign actors, in the harsh high country of Afghanistan during the relatively idyllic period before the Soviet invasion, and under the joyless and hypocritical rule of theTaliban, who turned the place into sort of religious concentration camp, ... Read More
- really well made , but...I absolutely loved the book, but there was something off about the film. The story revolves around a friendship between two boys growing up in Afghanistan -- starting in the 1970s and following them as they grow and as the political climate in Afghanistan changes. The book/film is not only about the characters, but also about the complexities of their environment. It was that environment, beautifully rendered in the novel, that I thought didn't come through as well in the film.
It's not that ... Read More
- One of the BEST!One of the most amazing movies ever.Only one hard-to-watch scene, but part of the great story.
- Blu-Ray ReviewThe Kite Runner was an excellent book. The film is also very good, though its ending is slightly different from the book (and in my opinion, more logical then the ending the author used). Others have talked about the merits of the film. I have a plasma 50 inch FPT5084 Samsung and a Sony Playstation for source. Technically, the film benefits from blu-ray treatment. The vistas are crisp and detailed, the skin tones natural, the "CGI kites" not so bothersome. I didn't notice any artifacts, and there is excellent ... Read More
