How I felt watching the Kite Runner Movie

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This is my very first blog (the one I did for anthro doesn't count) so I'm not entirely familiar with layouts or whatever, so here goes.

This blog post is dedicated entirely to how I feel about the movie for The Kite Runner. Forgive me if I ramble, because I've been wanting to express my frustration for so long.

We're all familiar with the idea that the book is better than the movie, right? Well, in this situation, this couldn't be more true. The Kite Runner was a beautiful composition of literary elements to create an emotion filled and passionate story about guilt and redemption. The Movie couldn't be farer from this idea. This beautiful book has been degraded to such a low quality, that I, like the rest of the watchers, would not watch it again (hopefully, that's how everybody else feels). Thanks, Hollywood! Here's why I'm so strongly against this movie. I believe I have fair points.

From the very beginning, the names are never said, meaning that the characters aren't properly introduced. By considering this decision, I believe that the demographic the producers thought would watch the movie would be the people who already read the book, who now want to see their potentially favourite novel brought to life on the big screen, because this decision reflects the idea that the audience is already aware of who these people are. However, this is a grave decision because it doesn't allow people who haven't read the book to understand the movie. Kind of messed up there, didn't you, Marc Forster? To add on to this, throughout the movie, you feel the story moves too fast. The transitions from, say summer to winter, are so abrupt, they might as well have had a voice over say "we are now going to the next scene, winter". There's also inconsistency's. Sohrab's attempt at suicide wasn't in the movie (Call me a sick puppy, but this is an important part of the story, and I wanted to see it, damn it!). Hassan also didn't have a lip thingy, or other, I forget what it's called. They cut out so much of the story, a short 2 minute video of some random guy reading the back of the book would have been more informing of the story. I still believe my original theory about how the producers believed that the largest part of the audience would be people who have already read the book. So then, that would mean, the producers failed to create a movie that would entertain people who have read the book as well as people who haven't. All in all, this movie was worse than Delgo. Did anyone here see that? Does anyone remember it? From 2009? Well, that bad.