The Kite Runner

I watched The Kite Runner last night. I had read the novel and the film was just as wonderful. The story begins in Afghanistan just before the Russians invaded. It ends twenty-some years later when the protagonist and his friend are no longer children. It is a story of love and betrayal, and of cruelty; but mainly, I think, it is a film that helps us understand courage, cowardice and remorse, and to realize the importance of self forgiveness.