The Kite Runner is on my desk here in a row of books revisited, books being read & books to be read, as one of those yet unread. Unread because, after the first chapter, I was unable to settle into the author’s rhythm; the principal reason why I put any well-recommended book on the proverbial back-burner for a time. Now, while reading a piece on Marc Forster, the director of Stranger than Fiction, Finding Neverland & Monster’s Ball, there it is in tenable black & white that he’s directed the film: The Kite Runner (due to release Dec. 2, 2007). …What to do, what to do? I enjoy seeing a movie after reading the book (the film usually not as good as the book) but I’d probably not read the book after seeing the movie…unless the movie was outstanding. I dig this director’s work so it’s likely I’ll see the movie. Guess I’d better bear a few more chapters of Khaled Hosseini's novel & see if I can hear the music in it…before December 2nd. Interesting thing about this book is it has a plot scenario similar to a book I’ve mentioned here called Black Wind. Although in Black Wind the boy who is the adolescent betrayer is American & his friend who is forever affected is Japanese.
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/movie/kite_runner_the/
& speaking of Stranger than Fiction, whether or not you’ve enjoyed any of the other corny-assed flicks Will Ferrell played the lead in (he’s been a fearless comic, gota give him that), this one directed by Marc Forster is worth a look. Gut-it-out all the way through, if only just to hear the closing narration, which sums things up perfectly. Stranger than Fiction should have been included in my previous post of
select movies that fit the theme: I Was Born to Love.
