THE POST OF POSTS

Although all main ideas and important events from the story were taken in account in the movie, there were some things that were not added. Some things that were left out were details such as Sohrab’s suicide attempt, Hassan’s gypsy mother, the lip surgery for Hassan, the problems at the Embassy, and Soraya’s grief due to Sohrab. These details didn’t affect the storyline too much, but if they were there they would have made the movie much more emotional. To go into more detail, Sohrab who is the son of Hassan hardly says a word after he is rescued because he is so physically and mentally scarred because of Assef, the bully who used Sohrab as a sex toy. In the book, Sohrab tried to committed suicide by cutting his wrists after Amir told him Sohrab that he would have to go back to an orphanage. However, in the movie the topic of taking Sohrab back to an orphanage or even the scene where Sohrab is found half-dead in the tub was not shown or even talked about. The movie continues though with Amir and Soraya who decide to adopt Sohrab, who is also Amir’s nephew. When they adopt in the book it is more realistic because they have some problems with the Embassy and adoption papers. In the movie, it really skips the problems that Amir would face trying to bring a foreign boy into the US.  However, in the movie they just put Sohrab on a plane with Amir to head back from Afghanistan to America, with no issues. The filmmakers expect the audience to fill in the blank spots of the movie. Also the movie does not talk anything about Hassan’s mother. If someone in the audience had not read the book before watching the movie, that one scene in the movie would have been very confusing because no word is spoken about Hassan’s mother. In the book Hosseini tells the reader that Hassan’s mother was a gypsy and ran away after giving birth to Hassan, leaving Hassan’s father to raise him. This leads me to another omitted scene: in the book Hassan is hair-lipped and on his 12th birthday, Amir’s dad pays for Hassan to have surgery to get rid of the hair-lip. In the movie this is not mentioned or shown. However, even though some of these details were missed in the movie, it was still amazing and captured some of the emotional tragic that was present in the book. In conclusion, “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hoissein and the movie produced by Marc Forester are both amazing. While the book had more detail and description, the movie brought the images alive and made it hard to accept the story, because it was so sad. All in all, the filmmakers were somewhat true to the book.