I’m glad to have watched the award-winning film THE KITE RUNNER. It certainly deserves its citation.
At first, I thought it would be one of those boring too-deep-for-me movies that could do nothing but lull me to sleep. It turns out that it is something that would wake up very strong thoughts and feelings in me.
The story focuses around two boys – Amir and Hassan, and of a friendship that helped them become the best of themselves. It showed Hassan’s devotion to his friend, even as a child, a virtue he would pass on to his friend who would need to redeem himself later on as a man.
I loved that the message came along so subtly, not forced nor preachy as other goody-goody films do. I also loved the fact that it centered around FRIENDSHIP, a relationship many people nowadays aren’t familiar with anymore.
I’m really glad it did not package love in a romantic formula, the only type of love most people recognize these days. It didn’t use the easy angle of packaging love as a sexual romance, the film was definitely not about that!
The film was about being human, of creating serious mistakes and of being able to grow from those mistakes, becoming a better person in the process. The film was about friendship, devotion and loyalty that doesn’t need any sexual angle to make it deep and meaningful.
The Kite Runner. We all run our own kites, don’t we? With whom do we run? And for whom are we running for?
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"