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The Kite Runner

Pulling the Strings

ONE THING THE CINEMA can do is take us to places we need to see but would never want to go. For about 15 minutes, near the end of its two hours, The Kite Runner, based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, recreates Afghanistan in 2000, in the waning days (although they didn't know it) of the Taliban dictatorship.

In a dilapidated stadium filled with men in beards and turbans, a charismatic leader introduces the day's entertainment: a woman who, for some unnamed crime against God, must meet lier punishment, and possibly her Maker, for the sport of a holy audience.

The first stone hits her in the head, knocks her to the ground. More stones follow, and ...

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