"The Kite Runner" is an ambitious film with themes of friendship, family, national emotions, war, redemption, fault, repentance, forgiveness, and more. But I prefer to see it as a pure children's film, a story about the friendship of children. Regarding this, I have to admit that I have an ostrich mentality, and I don't even want to count the second half of Amir's story growing up as part of this movie. Looking at those kites flying all over the sky, I never want the redemption of going back to Afghanistan in the future.
Under the guidance of my father when I was a child, I was also a good kite flyer. The kite could not only fly high and far in my hands, but also fly freely. But kite-fighting is not my strong point, and there are no good kite-fighting players around. Often people want to fight kites. One of the most romantic projects in kite flying at that time was to fly a hyacinth, tear off a piece of paper, write a few stray words on it, string it on the kite string, and let it go straight to the sky along the airflow— - In order to fit this situation, most of the words on the paper are some rhetoric, with an air of arrogance.
Now hiding in the reinforced concrete jungle of Beijing, staring at the palm-sized sky like a frog at the bottom of a well, and seeing the sky high and cloudy and colorful kites in the movie, the excitement is probably beyond words. I haven't read the original novel, and I don't know how the text describes such a pure and romantic plot, but I expect that in the performance of such situations, the visual impact will definitely be more enjoyable than the imagination in my mind. Kites, like proud fighter planes, are endowed with too many romantic imaginations for boys. All of them are like warriors who walk in a plane and dominate the sky. That's how war came--we played snowball fights when we were kids, and each snowball was actually a bullet, but you didn't have to die if you were hit. The emotion of fighting is buried in our hearts from a very young age, don't tell me what kind of bullshit that humans are peacemakers, the subconsciousness of defeating others has long been stored in our minds. Like a kite in the air, we want it to fly high and far, full of liberal sentiments, but in the end we want it back into our own hands - I say it's an innate desire to control, If you say I'm nitpicking, then I'm going to ask you, do you like to play the flying beacon that is thrown away and disappear, or the kind of gyroscope that can eventually fly back into your hands?
The child's heart is the most direct and most roundabout. When I was a child, I liked a girl, but I couldn’t write love letters to send roses. The only way to express it was to pull girls’ pigtails and lift their skirts. Fighting was often with my best friend. I understand better than anyone else - who made him not come with me after school yesterday? The relationship between Amir and Hassan is probably the most complicated among children. Master and servant, brother, close friend, the triple relationship is added to them, which will make it difficult for the party who is more concerned to bear. I don't know how to describe Amir's inner world. The word "ugly" on him makes me feel a little exaggerated. However, from the story he wrote, it is not difficult to find out how he sees the world and how he sees it. What a "heavy taste" child. In Amir's story, a man was given a magic cup in which tears could be turned into gold, and he killed his wife for the tears. Hassan asked, why didn't the man smell the onions? Hassan's cuteness has to be moved, but Amir has to use a tragic story to punish himself for killing his mother's fault. Amir is called by his father as a child without courage. His cowardice is not that he dare not face challenges, but that he cannot face his own mistakes.
I remember when I was a kid, one of my best friends was very close to my birthday. On his birthday that year, he gave me a gift that I liked very much, but when it was his birthday, I forgot. When I suddenly remembered, I realized what a mistake I had made, so I ignored him for a whole week, and even kept him away from me - my punishment for myself.
When Amir saw Hassan being sodomized for himself, he also chose to stay away, but he used his master status to force Hassan to leave him. Regarding the episode of sodomy, I couldn't accept it at first glance, it seemed a little too cruel. But when I saw someone talk about the illogicality of this episode from a biological point of view, I really got the urge to sodomize the writer. From a metaphysical point of view, this episode is a kind of war-like aggression. For a child without family property, the body is his only territory, and the invasion of the body is the greatest possession, that is, war. The ultimate goal; from a metaphysical point of view, the occupation of the body is also the greatest damage to the young mind. Even if it is really measured by the "physiological hygiene" set of things, a ten-year-old girl can become pregnant, how can the mystery of the human body structure be so easily doubted by the author! (I really don’t know what these people are thinking when they watch the movie!)
Amir’s cowardice is that he can no longer face Hassan, he can’t bear Hassan’s loyalty and affection for himself, so he makes mistakes, Chasing Hassan out was a guilt he could never bear in his life. The adult story in the second half is the growth process of Amir facing his faults and making up for them. However, this process is like the kite with a broken string. Even if you chase the falling shadow of the kite and hit it back, it will not. It was no longer the kite that was flying in the air. Amir, who is in the United States, disconnected not only his childhood life, but also his childhood emotions, but also the blood of his motherland. The Soviet Union's aggression made him have to choose to escape again, and thus cut off everything he had as a child. One is the active cut off (to drive out Hassan), the other is the passive departure (Soviet Russian aggression), which formed with Hassan's passive departure and active return (continuing to look after Amir's house) sharp contrast.
Amir brought Hassan's child to the United States. He tried to give the child the best life, but he did not know that he also cut off the child's roots in childhood. I don't know how many years after I cut off my childhood on my own initiative, I can go back to those old days and reconnect the broken wire...
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