We, the western people use to think we are the center of the universe and that the world revolves around us. We  don’t seem to understand why other regions in the world, as Middle East don’t look for development the way we do.

Thank God, there are movies like The Kite Runner (produced by DreamWorks SKG in collaboration with other independent companies) that shows a different and deeper image of Middle East.

The Kite Runner shows another Afghanistan, away from war and bombs. It is told to us through the story of two little boys and their friendship before the Russian invasion that tried to eliminate religion replacing it with communism. This attempt lead then (as it use to happen) to the other extreme, with the appearance of Taliban in the country that established a dictatorship of Islamic extremism and fundamentalism with a humiliating treatment to women and many racial groups they consider inferior.

Amir and Hassan live in a childhood world as hard as it is to survive as it is for most of the children. A stage were the dreams and emotions are as real as they are never again in life. For them running a kite is the biggest concern there is… until they find out the sense of loyalty, honesty, sacrifice and love while they mature in the day to day problems. And everything they believe comes to its greatest test when they experience the worst situation there is for any human being: WAR.

The Kite Runner is a great story for those who want to have a closer look to Afghanistan and just don’t think that watching at the TV news you know everything about the problems they experience in some Middle East countries.

Middle East as the rest of the world is full of people just as you and me that know in the bottom of their hearts what is right and what is wrong and there is a small minority of religious fundamentalists, but also Western politicians that want to rule through terror trying to confuse us, and showing us there is a big distance from them to us. When the thing is the human spirit in basis is the same, no matter the race, religion or culture. And we should fight to make our distance shorter instead of the grown apart we experience everyday in our times.