Boy am I a mess. I thought I was getting better a few days ago but I suddenly got worse. I have strep and a viral infection. I can't take antibiotics or I almost die so I spent the day doing alternative medicine treatments and crying. I get so emotional when I'm sick. Well, actually, I only get really emotional when I am sick for a month and it suddenly gets worse instead of better. I think I have way too many mixed up emotions with the Hep. A and the hairloss and mental stuff. So, mostly I've been crying all day. Why, oh why, then, did I decide it would be a good idea to watch The Kite Runner tonight? I read the book several years ago and was profoundly moved. I was excited for the movie to come out, but then it didn't play in any of the theaters around here. Now its on video and it came today for me to see. Probably would have been better to watch it when I was a little more emotionally stable!
I give the movie 4 stars. I thought it was very well done and it was very tasteful--the horror and sadness weren't nearly as dark in the movie as they were in the book. But still enough to make me cry cry cry. Especially at the end when Amir says to Sohrab, "You want me to run that kite for you?" Sohrab nods and Amir responds, just as Sohrab's father, Hassan had said to Amir years earlier, "For you, a thousand times over!"
It is a very moving story and also very enlightening regarding what is happening in Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini is a gifted story teller and I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn and feel of the plight of these people, even if it is painful. Tonight when I say my prayers, I will not to forget to pour my heart out for the suffering people, especially the children, in Afghanistan.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
For You, A Thousand Times Over
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YOu are very brave. I love you!!
thanks, sister. i love you, too!
Oh Shan. This makes me sad for you! I do hope you feel better quite soon.
My mom read that book, but I have yet to read it. At the time, I had just finished reading "The Bookseller of Kabul" and was facing how glad I am to be living my own little life, in my own little world in this beautiful country.
Jess, Thanks for all your nice comments. How was "The Bookseller of Kabul"?
Pobrecitami perlita...I just watchedit too as I am also on my sick bed. I liked the book better, but the movie was very tasteful and if I hadn't read already I would have throroughly loved it. I hope you feel better soon. IF you want to cry rivers read A
thousand Splendid suns by the same author...its 10x sadder. and depressing but it makes you realize how good WE have it
I've been hesitant to watch the movie due to the reported child abuse scene. Those scenes really bother me. Is it still worth watching? Will I be a better more compassionate human being for the experience?
Hope you recover quickly!
shannon-i hope you are feeling better soon ...
i read kite runner too - and loved it, because it made me think and feel and want to learn more of the people there -- all the things that make a good writer, i think. i'm not sure i'm strong enough to watch the movie. the movie in my mind, while i read, was vivid enough....
hi juli,
the child abuse scene was done very tastefully. of course it is painful to know what happened and to know that those things do happen, but it was done tastefully. i do think that i am more compassionate and have more cultural understanding and other things from watching the movie.
tash,
1000 splendid suns was also very, very good but, yes, very painful to read, especially coming from the point of a woman. it reminds me of how many benefits we have of living in the us and also the way that we are treated as women in compared to many other cultures of the world.
Oh you are all so brave. I am such a wimp. I can't bare to see or read painful things. I know it's wrong because I know it's important to know some of what is going on out there . . . I didn't evn watch Hotel Rwanda and everyone I know said it was amazing and Kite Runner is amazing, but so so hard. Do I have to read painful and awful to be a good person? Probably. It makes me feel such an air of sorrow all around me though!!! I know it's bad to just go around with blinders -- I read the new though, and even that can bring me down down.
I know what you're saying Nancy. I sometimes would rather stay ignorant in my own happy little world. I am aware that in the big picture we should help anyone we can. It's hard though when the horrible thing that is going on is in some other country and there is not an immediate resolution in place; therefore making it even more difficult to help hands-on. I love what our little Perla has done with Haitian Roots and I really admire her and Chancho for setting up such an awesome organization. I need to make my contribution there...no excuses, just been lazy about it.
Perlita, I hope you will feel better soon. Can String Cheese and Deedle have a sleepover on Friday, please? My girls would think I totally rock if I could arrange that for them. I tried calling you last Friday about it, but you were driving to the doctor.
Call me.
Oh, AND my mom calls me every single day to lament to me about the horrible things that are going on all around the world. This is a side of my mom that I find very troubling. She absorbs all this crap and then she mopes around all day like it is happening to her. It concerns me because she gets so caught up in other people's problems that it actually ends up affecting her health and stress levels.
Oh that book nearly killed me, I don't know if I could do the movie. Especially if I was so ill and emotional. I am sorry you are so sick. If I were closer I would bring ice cream. It probably wouldn't help, but I think nothing says I love you like ice cream....I just loved Hassan in that book. If he isn't the perfect example of Christ I don't know who is. Have you read Poisonwood Bible. It is my all time favorite book and I think you would enjoy it. It is set in Africa and comes from the different perspectives of four girls in a family that goes to Africa to help "save" the people. Two thumbs up. Heather
"The Bookseller of Kabul" was actually very interesting. There are some questionable parts, specifically in how certain men treat women and children. That's what I just cannot imagine about living in that part of the world. If you aren't a man, you are property. It's such an archaic form of thought. It's an interesting read if you want to learn more about other cultures.
Shan i say, you have always had such a gift for opening peoples eyes without making them feel guilty or unhappy with our extrememly blessed ways of life. I love you and am so proud of what an amazing person you are. Jason too. Love, MEg
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