Hi everyone!

I thought, as we have a music thread that we should have a film thread also. I thought that perhaps we could put down TCK films or just films that we have enjoyed and perhaps add some quotes as well?

I’ll start: I just saw The Kite Runner. It is a film of two boys Amir and Hassan in Afghanistan prior to the Russian invasion of the 70s. Hassan is the son of the servants and a Hazara. The two grow up like brothers until Amir and his father flee to America.

Years later, he hears that Hassan is dead and thatHassan has asked him to go and collect his son from Afghanistan and to keep him safe.

Several points that i found interesting were:

• Amir is, essentially a TCK and i liked that he remarks upon returning to Afghanistan:

“I feel like a tourist in my own country.” To which his driver replies; “You always were, you just never realised it then.”

• The son answers in English in America to his father even though the father speaks to him in his native tongue.
• Only occasionally does Amir answer his father in his native tongue and it is slow in coming as if he has partially forgotten.
• The father at times speaks in English to Amir.

I liked how the film makers have done that — someone who is not bi-lingual or has never lived in a country where the language spoken there is not their native one does not understand the consequences of language loss or acquisition of their children.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1Ivdc76nAY[/youtube]

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