The Kite Runner

On Tuesday, February 5, 2008, I went to see the movie The Kite Runner. I went into this movie without any knowledge of what it was going to be about, nor about the storyline, or whatever. I thought it was going to be the story about two boys, one or both of them who ran after kites. I had no idea it was about an Afghani writer, Amir.

The story is about his childhood, and how he was bullied with his friend. His father was worried that he would never become a man. Then the story changes and you see the Soviet invasion in 1979, and then his life that followed after. Amir actually ends up going back to his home country to help out a friend of his father's.

I don't want to say too much, because if I do, it sort of gives the film away, which would be spoiling it. It was a good film, I enjoyed it, and especially since I did not know what I would be getting into, it made the film that much more enjoyable.

An eye-opening piece of cinema that allows people to get an inside glimpse of how things possibly are in the Taliban regime.

All I will say is that the film comes full circle, which is always a nice way to end movies.