The Kite Runner (2007)

Regista:

Marc Forster

Writers (WGA):

David Benioff (screenplay)
Khaled Hosseini (novel)

Data di uscita:

26 dicembre 2007 (UK)

Genere:

Drama

Slogan:

There is a way to be good again.

Plot:

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. |

Plot Keywords:

Controversial | Taliban | Child Rape | Flea Market | Honor

Premi:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

I hope Afghanistan shares a similar fate.

Cast

Khalid Abdalla	...	Amir
Atossa Leoni	...	Soraya
Shaun Toub	...	Rahim Kahn
Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzada	...	Omar
Zekeria Ebrahimi	...	Young Amir
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada	...	Young Hassan
Mir Mahmood Shah Hashimi	...	Business Man in Baba's Study
Homayoun Ershadi	...	Baba
Nabi Tanha	...	Ali
Elham Ehsas	...	Young Assef
Bahram Ehsas	...	Wali
Tamim Nawabi	...	Kamal
Mohamad Nabi Attai	...	Uncle Saifo the Kite Seller
Mohamad Nadir Sarwari	...	Spice Merchant
Mustafa Haidari	...	Party Worker

Alias:

Cacciatore di aquiloni, Il (Italy) [it]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for strong thematic material including the rape of a child, violence and brief strong language.

Durata:

128 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese | Dari | Pashtu | Urdu | Russian

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonoro:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Divieti:

USA:PG-13 | South Korea:12 | Singapore:PG | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | UK:12A | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Netherlands:12 | Brazil:12 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Canada:14A | Taiwan:PG-12 | Australia:M | Hong Kong:IIA | Finland:K-13 | Germany:12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13 | Malaysia:U | Ireland:15A

Luoghi delle riprese:

Beijing, China

Company:

DreamWorks SKG

Curiosità:

In many of the kite flying shots, the children were pulling balloons and the kites were added in post-production.

Errori:

Continuity: Rahim sees the picture of Soraya and puts it down on the table. In the next scene, the picture is not seen anymore.

Citazioni:

[from trailer]
Older Hassan (voice): I dream that my son will grow up to be a good person, a free person. I dream that someday you will return to revisit the land of our childhood. I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets again... and kites will fly in the skies!

Movie Connections:

Fa riferimento a Bullitt (1968)

Colonna sonora:

Jadoo Kardei Jana

I hope Afghanistan shares a similar fate.

After seeing the prosthetic legs dropping from the sky by parachute in Kandahar (2001), one of the most memorable images in all of cinema, I wondered why there weren't more stories coming out of such a tumultuous country, tied to Americans forever by 9/11. And now I think I know why.

Such a beautifully-wrought adaptation of the wildly-popular novel of the same name, The Kite Runner is a model of fine film-making in almost all respects except one: It's too pat. So maybe Charlie Wilson's War will show me that films about Afghanistan will not revolve around formulae and clichés.

The redemption of the protagonist, Amir (Khalid Abdalla), has been told forever in literature and film, just not in Afghanistan. So no matter how tear-jerking the film may be, it is still a story told many times of a man who commits an egregious sin as a child but redeems himself in the end with an act of courage. Meanwhile, director Marc Forster and screenwriter David Beniof lace the film with the major motif, kite running, to such an ingenious extent that it not only ties in the hero's youth with his maturity, it also provides a figurative way of showing the desolation and hope of the country mixed of course with contradictory elements such as cutting string and blessed artificial legs.

Thus the film as metaphor is a success in showing the dismal past of a struggling country and its hopeful future. The cinematic images also emphasize this duality: The vistas with snow capped mountains and endless plains deflect the vision of a barren land where trees that manage to grow have been cut down by invaders, in this case 1979 Russia. The titular activity flourishes in large part because the arid, stony land offers few other possibilities. When the land is revisited in 2000, the limited country seems almost completely bereft of color and resources, a gray prison that parades adulterers to be stoned in the soccer stadium and little boys abused by an out-of-control Taliban.

But true to the formula, Amir has a second chance. I hope Afghanistan shares a similar fate.