{"id":1546,"date":"2008-01-15T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2008-01-15T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T21:50:20","slug":"review-the-kite-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Kite Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seemingly overly dramatic movie (based on a book), but somehow, it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a tear-jerker. The story, a childhood friendship mixed with some foreign familial customs and some war-torn country themes, still plays out in an earnest heartfelt way though. Acting is quite alright too, along with a good drama-enhancing score and location-rich screenplay. Director Marc Foster seems to build his movies on dialogue-ridden character exploration while having an excellent handle on child actors (see Finding Neverland), and that&#8217;s a good sign for his next project (Bond 22).7+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seemingly overly dramatic movie (based on a book), but somehow, it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a tear-jerker. The story, a childhood friendship mixed with some foreign familial customs and some war-torn country themes, still plays out in an earnest heartfelt way though. Acting is quite alright too, along with a good drama-enhancing score [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}