The Kite Runner Review

The Kite Runner:

The movie, The Kite Runner is based on the book titled the same, by author Khaled Hosseini. It’s a beautiful depiction of reality, in simple words. Amir and Hassan, fast friends growing up together in Kabul,

Afghanistan, their childlike adventures and pranks, an important part of their lives being flying kites, the hard times they faced and the show of ultimate faithfulness by Hassan toward his dear friend Amir, who was the son of Hassan’s father’s master. As time passes we see how things change in Afghanistan, with the Soviet spies everywhere, Amir and his father move to the United States. The course of life takes each person to lead their own individual adventure, each has a set of adversities to get over and time stops for nobody. Amir had married Soraya, the love of his life. Amir’s ‘baba’ (father) succumbs to cancer soon after their marriage.

One of Baba's old friends – a man who was like a second father to Amir – calls Amir in America. His name is Rahim Khan. He wants Amir to come back to Afghanistan, cryptically telling Amir, "There is a way to be good again". Amir drops everything in America and goes to meet Rahim Khan. There they learn that Hassan had married Farzana and they had a son, Sohrab. Hassan and Farzana had been executed brutally by the Taliban, leaving Sohrab orphaned. Amir and Soraya are to take Sohrab and adopt him, but this would be tough since there were no death certificates of Hassan and Farzana. Amir promises Sohrab that he will take him to America, but he had to be put in an orphanage for a while in order to get the paperwork, and Sohrab is distraught and tries to commit suicide, but survives.Though Sohrab survives, he doesn't fully forgive Amir. Yet the movie ends on a hopeful note. Amir takes Sohrab to the park where some Afghans are flying kites. Sohrab and Amir fly a kite together and even fight another kite – and win. It brings all of Kabul back to Amir and, we think, shows Amir and Sohrab how their love for Hassan has brought them together.

The movie was deeply moving and leaves one with a feeling of hope for the betterment of families that went and still go through these terrorising events, and yet we feel joy for the simplicity and love  that these two boys had in their friendship, and ho they were united in a way at the end.