The Kite Runner Film Analysis

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The Kite Runner

Movie title : The Kite Runner
Initial release : December 14, 2007
Time : 128 Minutes
Genre : Drama
Director : Marc Forster
Writers : David Benioff Khaled Hosseini
Starring : Khalid Abdalla Atossa Leoni Shaun Toub Zekeria Ebrahimi

The story began in Afghanistan about the friendship between Amir Jan and his servant son Hassan, they used to like playing a kite together, Amir was skillful controlling the kite and Hassan was his kite runner. They have won the local kite tournament, and Hassan also get the racial and sexual abuse from Assef, when he catch the broken down kite. Their friendship started to broke down when Amir keep a distance from Hassan and want a new servant, and shortly Hassan and
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in my opinion Marc Forster managed to bring the audience to feel the condition of Afghanistan before and when Taliban ruled Afghanistan. The main strong point of this movie are the emotion, the movie success to playing with the audience feeling, we can feel the happiness, sadness, and also the tension for example when Amir was in Afghanistan audience also really feel the tension, especially when were in the Taliban house to rescue Sohrab. If you analyze the politic side you can find some politic issue such as Discrimination, Invention, Changing main country power and main law. This movie also have the weak side like so many artificial effect for example when Sohrab shot Assef, it is ridiculous when we see Assef eyes like gone away like sucked and the blood effect also artificial. The story also too complicated because the story line running forward, backward, and forward again, it is a little bit confusing especially for children, because this movie is a family …show more content…
We can see the discrimination when Assef blame Amir because he socialize with Hassan, the Hazara people. The most people in Afghanistan are pashtun and Hazara are minority in Afghanistan. Religion background also the reason of discrimination Hazara ethnic, in Afghanistan The most religion in Afghanistan is Muslim and 85% are Sunni, they life spread away in Afghanistan . And the 15 % of the Muslim are Shi’a and if we read the history of Afghanistan, the Shi’a Muslim mostly located in Hazerajat who resident by Hazara people. Minor community and Religion Discrimination also the tragedy that we faces not only in ASEAN and Indonesia but also in the

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