The Stranger, December 13th, 2007
The Kite Runner
dir. Marc Foster
The Kite Runner cleaves to an age-old tradition, and I'm not talking about classical Asian folktales. Rather, this tradition entails exotic fiction being anointed by the mass media for middle-class consumption (in this case, by Oprah), the appropriation of its third world iconography by Hollywood hacks (fortunate son Marc Foster), and the thorough schmaltzing of an entire cultural identity-the conversion of a very real legacy of injustice and suffering into a palatable cineplex evening for American middle-agers who don't like Judd Apatow and don't understand ...
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