January

The Kite Runner - based on the international bestseller by Khaled Hosseini.

Many of my friends prefer the book, the novel, more than the movie version. Anyway, I’m a movie person (too). And in your movies experience, not so many of them imprint in your soul for so long. I bet this one will do. I told my friends that I couldn’t stop crying for one hour after it had ended.

For the one who’d like to know the synopsis, the story is mainly about friendship. It’s the relationship of two boys who were born totally different - one was rich, one was a servant.  But no barricade could block their love as best friends. One was best in kite flying and cutting it down, one was best in running to collect that kite back.

OK, skip this if you don’t want to be spoiled.

The coming of age scene is when Amir who is the rich and reserved boy saw his best friend, Hassan, was bullied and raped by one gang and he didn’t help, worse than that - he ran away and pretended nothing happened. The friendship broke from that point, not because Hassan was angry at Amir that he saw Amir was there and didn’t even try to help, but because Amir felt bad at himself more and more each day especially when Hassan never wanted to even throw his anger back to him.

Amir escaped to America because of the political thing.  He had a better life. He was succeeded in career and his marriage life. One day he got a call to go back and save Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from the orphanage which finally he found out that it’s his own nephew. This scence back in Kabul is totally diffrent from the first few ones. It’s dry and ruined. Sohrab was again used as a sex slave to the same rapist who was now calling themselve ‘Taliban’. By so many violent scences that emphazised how real cruel is, the water started coming up to my eyes.

Even eventually Amir could save Sohrab’s life, he still needed time to adjust. The last words at the end of the film which Amir said to Hassan’s was ‘For you, a thousand times over’ still echo in my heart. It reminded Amir and me  how pure and loyal Hassan was when he was a little boy and never felt any tired to run to bring the kite back to Amir. He alway said to Amir - ‘For you, a thousand times over.’

Have I told you that relationship can never get cut?

To me every movie flashes back to God. This movie shook me a lot because I am like Amir who has the good clean life and sit there peeping at my real brothers got raped and pretended nothing was happening.

The scence I did burst into tears is the orphanage home when Amir went there and found out that Sohrab was sold. Most of the children had no legs or arms because of the war. Amir yelled at the housekeeper how mean he sold the kid. That house keeper yelled back that he did his best to save as many kids as he can. He’d rather exchange some kids to save the remaining kids. This was all best he could do. He is an example of the one who at least did something.

This hits me.