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To be honest, I got a feeling for what it is like to fly a kite from this film, but I think Miaomiao still doesn't know how to fly a kite after watching it. Because the technology inside is not very practical. Just like when the warlords are fighting, the kites can fight and cut each other, and the last one is the winner of the battle royale. People will also chase the kite of the loser for the winner.
This is called kite runner. There is also the famous line of this novel: For you, thousands of times.
Translated by Comrade Li.
But the whole movie is like a literal translation of the essence of the novel, which cannot bring huge shocks. Many plots are a bit unreal because of the simplification. For example, the father of the protagonist is also a kite runner who once cut off 14 kites. This is nonsense. He was obviously a hunter who had fought with bears before, and he couldn't fight every time. Full of masculinity from the inside out, but in the film it's an old handsome guy. This is for the so-called ratings.
The portrayal of the protagonist is not clear enough. For example, Hassan, we have almost no impression of him, but a lot of things are said in the novel. For example, his loyalty, he also has his personality. The son's film can only be taken with one stroke. Not enough was introduced to Hassan's son Sohab.
The one who played the father should be an old actor, but he was like a sleight of hand when it came to characterization.
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But the biggest role of this film is to let you see what Afghanistan is like. Especially the feeling of freedom of kites flying over the bungalows. That blue kite color, and people frame it and hang it on the wall.
The home of the rich in Afghanistan is actually no different from that of the West at that time. It was really like that at that time. They had a modern army and a modern business. This is the result of the social changes in the entire country after the shah of Iran fled. What you feel is thriving.
The protagonist's father was very rich. At that time, he could even buy the latest version of Ford's cars, and he had a very high rate of turning heads when he walked on the street. So he lived the life of a young master when he was young.
The film doesn't show how big and dangerous his success as a writer in America and her decision to return to Afghanistan is.
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