This book was a birthday present from a friend. I read half of it, and then I stopped reading and watched the movie again. The movie condenses the plot from the book, so people who have seen the original may understand the plot better.
"A child who can't stand up for himself can only be a coward when he grows up." Amir, who came from a privileged background, has the only playmate Hassan. Hassan and Amir are separated by a tragic thick barrier. Amir doesn't see Hassan as a true friend from the bottom of his heart, it's just that he can't make playmates that his friends use to entertain. Amir's lie was just to show himself in front of his father. He was afraid of letting his father see his cowardly side, so he used a lie to disguise himself. In some respects, Amir is absolutely selfish. Between his playmates and his own interests, he resolutely chooses to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, denying or even trying to erase the fact that Hassan was sexually assaulted. If the devil is still lingering in your mind, what about the future?
All of Amir's sins and selfishness are partly due to his father. Amir's father always had high hopes for him. Because of his own reasons, his father lost his wife. Amir was afraid of his father's scolding, and he was afraid of failure, so he chose to use lies to cover up and whitewash peace. Likewise, his father's status allowed his vanity to play as if something was more important than the truth. He knew about Hassan's experience and how the watch was framed on Hassan, but he didn't jump out and tell the truth. The image of his father is glorious and upright. He said that "war will not make noble sentiments disappear, and people need it even more than in times of peace." He can play a qualified father in front of Amir and protect the weak. But who would have thought that such a father would actually possess his servant's wife. Until his death, he carried this secret with him and was unwilling to reveal it. We always like to find many reasons for ourselves to explain our cowardice, always deceive ourselves to believe those beautiful lies, always hide our inner fears, and always avoid the crimes we have committed. But the fact is always that one day, we have to face those sins calmly and redeem our souls.
What impressed me the most in the movie is that after Hassan was sexually assaulted, he limped on the snow. The ground was pure and white, but it was sadly stained by Hassan's blood. Hassan is the lamb to be slaughtered on the chopping board, man is the knife, and I am the fish. The head of the sheep was in the pit, and Amir's father said, "Water the tree with blood, it will be good for the tree." Hassan became the victim, and so did Ali. Their loyalty was exchanged for unequal deception and betray.
"Dear Amir, when sins lead to good deeds, that is true salvation." Amir's father was using the good deeds of his life to redeem his mistakes. It was not until his father's death that Rahim Khan made Amir truly wake up. , he took off the burden, "I'm glad that someone finally sees my true face, I'm too tired." The cowardice, guilt, and timidity that have been accumulated in his heart have been exposed to the sun, so that he can no longer There is nowhere to hide.
The kite is a thread that runs through it. In the novel "The Kite Runner", the image of the kite is multiple. It can symbolize bravery, integrity, dignity, hope, redemption and destiny. As Li Jihong, the translator of The Kite Runner, said: "The kite is symbolic, it can be either family, friendship, love, or integrity, kindness, and honesty. For Amir, the kite is a metaphor for his personality. Only by catching up the small part can he become a healthy person, the Amir he hopes for himself."
The process of chasing the kite is actually a metaphor for Hassan's tragic fate, like a kite with a broken string, crumbling. At the same time, it is also the process of witnessing Amir's growth and self-awakening. Good books are always related to sad stories. The stories he recorded in words are actually a kind of struggle and contradiction in his heart. Guilt towards Hassan, a dissatisfaction with his own cowardice, and in the process he begins to realize that it is better to be hurt by the truth than to be comforted by a lie.
The second half of the movie is actually a transformation of the protagonist's inner growth. He looks directly at his weakness and past mistakes. He glued on a fake beard, put on a wig, and went back to his homeland, only to find, comically, that he came home like a tourist. In Afghanistan, there are many children, but no childhood. Dilapidated, messy, distorted human nature, surrounded by children with mutilated limbs, impacting Amir's senses. He chose to face the past, face himself, and the moment he saw Hassan's son, he seemed to have returned to the deepest corner of his memory. all over."
When Amir frankly confessed to the general at the dinner table the unknown secret of himself and his father, it was a sublimation of the whole film. Martin Luther King said: The greatest tragedy of social transformation that history will remember is not the noise of the bad guys, but the silence of the good guys. There is an elephant in the room, and one day you will no longer be able to ignore the fact that it exists.
At the end of the film, Amir flew a kite with Hassan's son in a foreign land. He praised Hassan's bravery in Sohrab, and the depression and self-blame accumulated over the years were released at the moment when the kite was flying in the air, and Amir finally dispelled. The haze that shrouded my soul when I was chasing a kite for the first time. He expressed his decision to be as loyal to himself as Hassan back then, to always care for Sohrab, and to gradually realize the return of his beautiful and human nature. Kite chasing has become a ritual in Amir's growth history, and it is also a kind of hope. The kite has become the God of redemption of souls. Amir ran to pick up the kite. Like the loyal Hassan, he said, "For you thousands of times."
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