I was moved to tears several times while reading the book. It was only later that I found out that I had made a movie and won an Oscar.
I originally wanted to read the book again (how many times I can read a good book is not too much!) But due to limited time, I decided to watch the movie and recall the plot again, not to mention that the film has won an award, and it is also worth watching.
The movie starts with a phone call, a phone call from Asin Khan, back in 1978.
The camera returns to a kite-fighting competition in 1978, two boys, one of whom is clearly a Razaha boy with a slumped nose. Their dialogue lines are the same as in the original.
When Hassan went to help Amir chasing the kite as usual, he said: For you, thousands of times. I immediately burst into tears.
If I haven't read the original book and watched the movie directly, I'm afraid I can't understand why I cry.
Thinking back to the emotions described in the original book, Amir's inner activity, and when he knew what happened after reading the entire novel, this sentence must be the most touching.
Due to time constraints, it is impossible to express all the details of a novel in a two-hour film, but the film still largely adheres to the original. However, because it cannot be fully developed according to the original work, many details and inner activities have been omitted. Therefore, the emotions expressed in the film are not so obvious, and even make people feel abrupt and incomprehensible.
For example, in the original novel, Hassan is a boy with a cleft lip. One year on Hassan's birthday, the gift that Amir's father gave Hassan was not a kite, but a doctor who performed an operation on Hassan and cured the cleft lip.
For another example, after Amir found Hassan's son Sohrab, Amir fell asleep in the hotel, and Sohrab disappeared. If I remember correctly, the original should say that Sohrab went to Bamiyan Buddha. But not in the film. (I wonder if the Bamiyan Buddha was completely blown up by the Taliban in 2001, so there was no way to film it?)
In addition, there are some details that are different from the original.
But the most important thing, I think the movie should not be discarded, should be when Amir wants to take Sohrab to the United States and encounters a problem with the immigration procedures, he wants Sohrab to go back to the orphanage temporarily, but Sohrab Afraid of going back, I cut my veins to commit suicide. Because this paragraph directly led to Sohrab's reluctance to get close to them even when he came to the United States, he was very withdrawn. However, there is no obvious show in the film that Sohrab is unwilling to integrate into the "new American family".
After talking for a long time, it seems to be a comparative analysis of the original book and the movie, haha.
At the end of the movie, when Amir went to fly a kite for Sohrab, he said: For you, thousands of times. So far, a redemption has been completed.
The music of the movie is very good, and it seems that the Oscar award is the soundtrack (can't remember exactly).
ps: At the beginning, I talked about Afghanistan in the 1970s. Looking at the clothes of the people on the street, it seemed that the women didn’t have a cover and only had their eyes. It was more open at that time.
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