The Kite Runner (2008)
The Kite Runner
”A man returns to Afghanistan to help his old friend's son in trouble.”
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The book 'The Kite Runner', by Khaled Hosseini, became a bestseller in the mid-2000s - and it wasn't by chance. The work portrays the political, social and religious transformations of Afghanistan from the 1970s, starting with an almost dreamlike view of life in the country at the time, but gradually reality is imposed, with the backdrop of the fall of the monarchy in 1973, the coup in 1978, the Soviet invasion of 1979 and, finally, the rise of the Taliban. All this to accompany the friendship between Amir and Hassan, which, between their meetings and misunderstandings, works as a metaphor for what happened in the country. The film adaptation, directed by Marc Foster ('007: Quantum of Solace'), seeks to bring to the screen all this experience. Unfortunately, passages that give layers to the story had to be cut, for time reasons, but still we have a feature film that helps to understand the transformation in Afghan society and the evils of religious fundamentalism, corruption, intervention of great powers, war and ethnic and social hatred.
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After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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