The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner
by Marc Forster

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Actor: Homayoun Ershadi, L. Peter Callender, Larry Brown, Sa?d Taghmaoui, Shaun Toub
Director: Marc Forster
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Russian (Original Language); Urdu (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video

DVD Reviews of The Kite Runner

DVD Review: Kite Runner Review
Summary: 4 Stars

Kite Runner, a fictional book, was written by Jhaled Hosseini. Hosseini has also authored A Thousand Splendid Suns. Children may not understand the themes of this book and there are also some graphic scenes. The reader learns about many cultural differences between Afghanistan and the U.S. Kite Runner is about the struggle between shame and being able to forgive yourself. The different characters in this story deal with this issue in different ways. I was impressed with the way the author writes in a way that you begin to empathize with the characters and also ties in cultural themes to the story. The cultural themes the author does decide to use are very effective in that they do not seem to be just thrown in there, but they have a point in the story and move the plot along.

DVD Review: Children in War
Summary: 4 Stars

This film tells a story that won't be familiar to most western audiences. Against the backdrop of Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, the desperate bid for survival touches the lives of adults and children, alike. Delving into the brutalities of life and war, this film is fairly graphic as seen through the eyes of young Amir, and as filtered through his capricious memories as an adult. The story of his life serves as a not so gentle reminder of the atrocities children experiences during war and how it shapes their lives as adults. Definitely not a family flick and not for the faint of heart, the only downfall of this story is its slow beginning. Accept the tarried pacing of its setup and the conclusion will not fail.

DVD Review: Disappointingly reassuring
Summary: 3 Stars

I did not, and do not plan to, read the book this movie was based upon, so I can only speak to the film itself. Which was, to some extent, watchable and enjoyable. As a result of its rather refreshingly exotic nature, I feel tempted to forgive much that I would normally disdain in the Hallmark-moment department. Still, as this just seems to be the latest (what I can only think to call) immigrant-sploitation film, I feel somewhat obliged to poo-poo on its parade.

I think, ultimately, the father was correct when he doomed the young Amir who ran from bullies to also be a man who stood up for nothing. The protagonist, and film itself, ultimately avoid confronting anything of any difficulty whatsoever by instead focusing on the child. And no, a quite unbelievable fight with a Taliban head inside his own compound and snapping at a relative at a dinner table who doesn't even bother to argue back don't count for much when you've got people hopping about on one foot amid the wasteland of Afghanistan or people getting stoned to death at a halftime show treated as simple scenery.

I'm not sure whether Afghan culture got ripped off by a short-sale or if whoever paid to make or watch this movie did, but, personally, if all you're going to do is sing "I believe the children are our future" to me, at least get me Whitney Houston.

DVD Review: A MUST SEE !!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie was recommended by my pastor. It is moving and powerful. You will love the powerful storyline of the two small boys, whose lives will be drastically changed by the descisions they make early in life. Make sure you have a box of tissues for the end.

DVD Review: The Most Overrated Movie Of 2008!
Summary: 1 Stars

Everybody I know has raved about what a great movie this is so I went and wasted [...] bucks at my local cinema to to see it for myself.This movie is set in the God forsaken backwater of Afghanistan where all the guys seem to be confused about their sexual identity cos they all walk around wearing robes and stoning women of loose moral character.I guess Women's Sexual Fredom is still an unkown concept in that part of the world . I kind of feel sorry for the American Troops over there who have to put up with living in such a backwater. So then we have two boys named Hassan and Amir. One is a rich spoiled kid and the other is a peasant. Bad things often happen to poor people and this movie is no exception. Poor little Hassan gets raped by this bully who is either a child molester or a homsoexual or both. Then Amir runs away instead of defending him. What are good friends for may I ask? Then Amir can't stand to be around Hassan anymore because he is a constant reminder of what a coward he really is. Then the movie turns into some sort of existential common man search for meaning, salvation and redemption and Hassan is living in America by that time and goes back to his crappy homeland for forgiveness or God knows what.By this point of the movie I couldn't care less. Then he tries to adopt a kid and gets beaten up which he enjoys cos it makes him feel better. This part of the movie only makes sense of you can understand the concept of guilt riden masochism . Then by golly gee it all works out for Amir in the end and he gets to fly his kite with some local kids. Afghanistan is a God forwesaken backwater and when I pay good money to see a movie I at least expect some nice scenery and a few good looking women in it instead of this junk

Description of The Kite Runner

Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day, when Amir fails to save his friend from brutal neighborhood bullies. Amir and Hassan become separated, and as first the Soviets and then the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan, Amir and his father escape to the United States to pursue a new life. Years later, Amir - now an accomplished author living in San Francisco - is called back to Kabul to right the wrongs he and his father committed years ago.

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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