Story of the children

When I watch movies, I easily get impressed by the movies where a child or children are main characters of the movie. I think it's because I'm a child yet (although I'm 16, but my mind, my heart, and my brain point out that I'm still a little girl). Anyway, there are many movies I got inspired by, but today I'm going to focus only on few of them - my most favorite movies. 

1. Children of Heaven

It's just a story of a sister and brother who have only one pair of running shoes. They have to share it, so a sister goes to school in the morning, and a brother goes in the afternoon. Even though, brother always runs to school, he always gets late to school. So, he participates in school marathon to get the 3rd place - the prize is new pair of running shoes. So, this is the main story how brother tries his best to get running shoes for his little sister.

I don't know how much I cried when I watched this movie. I was toched by how brother cares so much about his sister, to get his sister new pair of running shoes. When I was in an elementary school, I really hated to wear my old running shoes because it showed people how poor I was. However, after watching this movie, I participated in UNICEF community to help poor children back in Pakistan, Afganistan, or Africa and actually, sent them new running shoes for them.

2. Kite Runner

Amir is a son of the wealthy trader in Afganistan, and Hassan is the son of the servant who works for the Amir's father. Amir and Hassan both don't have mother, but they hang out together no matter in what hierarchy they are. After the Kite Tournament, Amir sees how Hassan gets raped by the street gang boy. The story goes on after the 10 years, when Hassan and his father gets out of Amir's house, and Amir moves to New York with his father, Baba. After Baba dies, and Amir gets engaged, he goes back to Afganistan to find his old friend, Hassan.



I didn't know how the children in the Afganistan/Pakistan played and lived. I didn't even realize how the friendship can ignore the social hierarchy established between people. Not the servant and the master relationship, but the two close friends, two brothers cared and loved each other, but had to go through conflicts, death, and war. I especially liked how, after 10 years, Amir goes back to  Afganistan to find Hassan, but finds out that Hassan is dead and Hassan's son is sent to orphane, and Amir takes Hassan's son back to New York. The movie closes how Amir runs to get the dropped kite for Hassan's son, or his nephew. (since Hassan and Amir were actually brothers with same mother).