Amongst the snowcapped mountains and sepia kolbas of Afghanistan, director Marc Forster brilliantly depicted Khaled Hosseini’s best seller The Kite Runner. With a beautiful scenography that shows us the arid nature and life in the Middle-East country, Forster portrays a wonderful story of friendship and honor that starts with the young days of Amir (Zekeria Ebrahimi) and his father’s servant son, Hassan (Ahmad Khan), carelessly roaming and kite-fighting through the streets of Kabul. One day, Hassan is raped by a group of older boys in an act of protection and loyalty to Amir, who cowardly just watches everything. Worrying that Hassan would tell Baba (Amir’s father) about his lack of courage, Amir rejects his friend and makes he leave his house. After the Soviet invasion, Amir leaves the country with his dad and posteriorly moves to the United States. After several years, the grown Amir (Khalid Abdalla), an aspirant writer, receives a letter from an old friend of his father, asking him to go back to Afghanistan to rescue Hassan’s son from the Taliban. As a means of reciprocating the terrible incident of his childhood, Amir feels the obligation of helping the boy. Khalid’s shyness and insecurity while performing the grown Amir properly match the personality of a men who had a turbulent childhood and experienced different traumas. The movie lively exposes the cruelty to which society was submitted during the Taliban regime, and the poverty that devastates that region, contrasting the free kites flying through Kabul’s skies.
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