Last Friday we watched the kite runner at school. It was really nice to see the movie after we had read the book. We didn't see the entire movie, but I enjoyed the part we saw. As it usually is, the book and the movie were a little different from each other. In the movie, you don't see the characters minds and their thoughts, but in the book we could read Amir’s thoughts almost all the time.
One of the tasks we had regarding the book was to write about five specific paragraphs from it, and link them to different topics, like for instance conflict or relationship. Then, we were supposed to explain why we chose them. While we watched the movie we were asked to try to see how one of these paragraphs was interpreted in the movie. The paragraph I chose to look for in the movie was linked to conflict, and here it is:
“Sometimes I look out this window and I see him playing around on the street with the neighborhood boys. I see how they push him around, take his toys from him, give him a shove here, a whack there. And, you know, he never fights back. Never.. he just … drops his head and… “So he’s not violent,” Rahim Khan said.” “That’s not what I mean, Rahim, and you know it,” Baba shot back. “There is something missing in that boy”.
In this paragraph Amir is listening to a conversation about him between his father and a friend, Rahim Khan. This paragraph from the book is very similar in the movie. The conversation and what they say is almost identical to what it says in the book. We see Amir outside the room, listening, and everything is actually almost like I pictured it while reading the book! I often experience that when I am reading a book, I picture everything I read in my mind. And then, if I watch the movie after reading, everything is so very different from what I pictured. But in this case, with this paragraph, it was very close.
One of the tasks we had regarding the book was to write about five specific paragraphs from it, and link them to different topics, like for instance conflict or relationship. Then, we were supposed to explain why we chose them. While we watched the movie we were asked to try to see how one of these paragraphs was interpreted in the movie. The paragraph I chose to look for in the movie was linked to conflict, and here it is:
“Sometimes I look out this window and I see him playing around on the street with the neighborhood boys. I see how they push him around, take his toys from him, give him a shove here, a whack there. And, you know, he never fights back. Never.. he just … drops his head and… “So he’s not violent,” Rahim Khan said.” “That’s not what I mean, Rahim, and you know it,” Baba shot back. “There is something missing in that boy”.
In this paragraph Amir is listening to a conversation about him between his father and a friend, Rahim Khan. This paragraph from the book is very similar in the movie. The conversation and what they say is almost identical to what it says in the book. We see Amir outside the room, listening, and everything is actually almost like I pictured it while reading the book! I often experience that when I am reading a book, I picture everything I read in my mind. And then, if I watch the movie after reading, everything is so very different from what I pictured. But in this case, with this paragraph, it was very close. So far I really liked the movie, and I'm looking forward to see the rest!
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Thank you Cathrine. Well written. Your paragraphs got an important part in the movie too. And no wonder. It is an important part of the relationship between father and son. They are very different from each other and it bothers the father a lot.
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