Hazara and Kites

The Kite Runner was outstanding.
Best scenes which I liked include:
a. Amir asking casually "where were you .. i was looking all around for you" to Hasan. Thought it was totally outstanding..
b. Amir trying very hard to get rid of his guilt by calling Hassan a thief.
c. Amir asking his father to back down when confronted with a Russian guard.
d. When Soraya and her parents visit the hospital. Amir telling his father, how much he is in love with Soraya.

e. And most of all I liked the way they have dealt the ethnic conflict i.e Hazara-Pashtoon conflict. Got curious and read an article in wiki on Hazaras, and glad it was amazing education for me.

Also, it was truly spectacular how the movie romanticized 'kites' and I cannot agree more, it is such a beautiful hobby really. But I thought there was a flaw in this movie in the way in which, Amir successfully cuts the other kites by not allowing more thread instead by pulling more thread towards him. My kite experience teaches the opposite i.e you have to give more thread towards the kite rather than pull the thread, in order to win the duel.
Am sure other kite exponents will agree that you really have to push the kite away from you rather than pull the kite towards you, for winning the contest. As they say in tamil, deel pannnumpothu noola vidu .. neraya evan noola vidarano avan than most of the times kite contest a win pannuvan .. (of course goes without saying manja is mandatory for the thread)