The kite runner--Khaled Hosseini ( the film)
Persian: کاغذپرانباز - Kāğazparān Bāz or بادبادکباز Bādbādak-bāz
Written in 2003 by the Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini, the book spans the years from the pre-war Kabul of the 1970s to the brutality of the Taliban era.
While this retrace some aspects of my own past... I have mixed feelings to both the book and the film... of course, it is amusing to see that some actors speak Persian, Amir's father while the kids are real afghan and thus have the definite pronunciation.. The landscape was not quite right because the film was filmed for some parts seemingly in Kashgar in western China (for security reasons).. so it is funny although very similar people and places somehow somethings do not look right...
of course the scene of the sexual offenses on the Hassan and then Sohrab, horrible in the book, are also there in the film.. and it is really though... the Taliban horror is much more impressive in the book, and the erring of Amin in Peshawar before he really can adopt Sohrab.. have been cut in the film, however perhaps they are interesting parts of the story of Amin- the cruel/jealous/unloved little boy..
Written in 2003 by the Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini, the book spans the years from the pre-war Kabul of the 1970s to the brutality of the Taliban era.
While this retrace some aspects of my own past... I have mixed feelings to both the book and the film... of course, it is amusing to see that some actors speak Persian, Amir's father while the kids are real afghan and thus have the definite pronunciation.. The landscape was not quite right because the film was filmed for some parts seemingly in Kashgar in western China (for security reasons).. so it is funny although very similar people and places somehow somethings do not look right...
of course the scene of the sexual offenses on the Hassan and then Sohrab, horrible in the book, are also there in the film.. and it is really though... the Taliban horror is much more impressive in the book, and the erring of Amin in Peshawar before he really can adopt Sohrab.. have been cut in the film, however perhaps they are interesting parts of the story of Amin- the cruel/jealous/unloved little boy..