In response to the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 which led to the Taliban retrieving power and many Afghans fleeing for other countries with North America, but also Mexico, the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, Australia and (unexpectedly) African countries such as Rwanda and Uganda, taking them in, I am typing this comment to remind the people that the film-and its source material-may have been ahead of its time. In fact, I am sure both titles may have experienced a resurgence in popularity due to the Taliban taking back Afghanistan immediately after the end of the United States' "longest war" which took place after and as a result of 9/11. Khaled Hosseini must have been delighted (any other words?), but not surprised, to see this, being an Afghan refugee in the United States (pre-2021) himself; he can even write a sequel to his novel now that he heard the news about the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan refugee exodus that followed. I mean, who expected this to be more revelant this year?

Damn... bless that orphanage guy. Such thankless work for heroic work

This passage in the book made me cry so hard.

Bitter truth of every war...the only victims are ordinary people and not one politician lose sleep over this amount of cruelty and crime because always them and their dear ones are safe and far from the harm.

I know how movies don't cover all the details, might even change the details but seeing them satisfies my urge to give the characters and scenes, my imagination a face or a picture. I wouldn't like the movie as much as I would admire the book but still I am grateful that they made movie on this beautiful book.

Poor man, he got no choice. I cried when he spoke out loud

Aw man! I was waiting for the "he's great with the slingshot" quote!

One of the most powerful scenes ever in cinema

Fyi...in the book Farid is the one who gets mad at the orphanage Director (Zamann)and strangles him. Amir is the calmer one who stops Farid from killing Zaman. No harm done to the story but different is all....just helps the movie director keep that sense of privileged naive indignation on the foreigner...rather than the streetwise character that Farid was.

good that the film added and slightly changed this part as compared to the book. in the book, Amir only realized the need to bring Sohrab to the US much later, he has yet to think of that during his visit to the orphanage. but the change in the film was understandable in order for one glaring fact to be stated (which the book missed out), that taking one kid to the US so he can have a better life seemed an elitist act, while the rest of the children in the orphanage wouldn't have such a chance. though it also spells out that national liberation for a war-torn country like Afghanistan would ensure its kids and future generations would be safe, in their own homeland. rather than be uprooted to "safer, modern" states in the West

Sohrab was at this orphanage. He was taken by the Talib official mentioned by the caretaker

someone can tell me whats the subject of this film ? i was watching a video and im here now dont understand

i read his book and it made me cry and could not sleep for a few days i thought of afghanistan. I pray that brothers and sisters in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, will soon get real independence, live safely, peacefully, amiin. ❤🇮🇩

In the book, Farid attacked him right?

The video of Sohrabs rescue has been scrubbed from KZfaq.

I like the movie a lot. They had to cut a good part of the things that happen in the book for reasons of safety for the cast (people, think about it, it was filmed in Afghanistan....) The boy who played Hassan even had to flee the country due to death threats due to the nude scene. I think adding more details from the original to the movie would make it unbearable to watch. What it has is enough to know that the boys' lives have been a disgrace.

0:38 He gets the greeting wrong, he should say "alaikum assalam" instead of repeating the greeting

May be the same is happening in Gaza now.

Camse tell someone who cares cuz i clearly dont

The Kite Runner was the worst book of all time. Can't believe they made a movie of such an awful book.