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Showing posts with label movie review. Show all posts
The Kite Runner (2007)
I watched 'The Kite Runner' recently, after I read the book with the same title, written by Khaled Hosseini.
The Kite Runner it's a story about friendship, but also about the political turmoil and the violent fights from Kabul, Afghanistan. Amir (a boy coming from a wealthy family) has to live with the guilt that he abandoned his best friend, Hassan, the son of his family's servant, in one of the worse moments of his life. Him and his father will run away in USA, after the Soviets occupies Kabul.
Even though, as usually, I liked the novel better, the movie was pretty good. I give The Kite Runner
The movie starts with Amir being in America and having published his first book. He remembers his childhood, back in Kabul, when he was reading stories for his illiterate best friend, Hassan. Hassan was the son of his father's Hazara servant and he was totally devoted to Amir.
Amir's father loves both of them the same, but he doesn't like that Amir spend so much time reading and writing. The little boy thinks his father blames him for his mother's death, when she gave him birth.
Hassan and Amir run kites and Hassan has a real talent for that. He can take off a kite without even looking at it. Amir wins the local running kites tournament and his father's admiration.
Hassan goes to get back the last broken kite, but he will meet Assef and his friends. Assef is an older boy, who keeps bullying Amir for having a Hazara friend (Hazara was considered an inferior race). Assef will rape Hassan and Amir watches the entire scene, but he's too coward to interfere.
The boys won't say anything about the rape, Amir because he thought he will lose his father love and Hassan was too embarrassed to tell the truth and this will create a gap in their friendship. Amir wants Hassan out of his life, so he plants his watch under Hassan's mattress, so Hassan can be accused of stealing. Even if Amir's father forgives him, Hassan's father takes him and they leave the house.
Five years later, Amir and his father are forced to leave Afghanistan, whereas the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan. After many adventures, they reach USA. There, he will meet and fall inlove with Soraya, a fellow refugee. They will get married soon after and learn that they can't have children.
After 15years, Amir receives a phone from his father's best friend, asking him to come to Pakistan. When he goes there, he will find out that in fact Hassan was his brother so he went back to save him, but he's already dead. He found that Hassan had a son and his mission is to save him from the orphanage.
He will disguise (wears a fake beard and moustache) to enter the Taliban territory. He had to, because all Afghan people who ran away were punished. Amir couldn't find Hassan's son, Sohrab, in the orphanage, but the director tells him that a Taliban official comes often and takes a girl back with him, sometimes a boy. Last time he took Sohrab and he never came back.
Amir found the boy, dancing dressed in women's clothes, in a house of a rich people and being raped by Amir's acquaintance from the past, Assef. He will agree to release Sohrab, only if he can cruelly beat Amir who will be saved by Sohrab's slingshot. Amir takes Sohrab back with him to America and him and his wife decides to adopt him.
At the very end, Amir is teaching Sohrab how to run a kite and he's talking about Hassan and what talented kite runner he was.
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Movie review of Shutter Island
Shutter Island is one of the awesome movie that i watched lately,directed by Martin Scorsese! Great movie with great story.I can't help myself to watch this movie more than 3 times.And one of the most important reason is i like the main character Leonardo DiCaprio,who is really really cool.
The story is set in 1954, as a U.S. Marshall named Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) investigate the disappearance of an insane-asylum patient, Rachel (Emily Mortimer). The strange thing is that the patient vanished from an asylum known as Shutter Island.O
To be honest, i am kind of confused about the story until almost the very end, but when i finished the ending, and i said:"oh, that's how the awesome story goes!"
overall,cool!cool!cool!cool!cool!cool!~;~