The Kite Runner, The movie

Yeh you read the title right, there's going to be a film adaptation of the book, My sister first told me, she hasn't read it herself but she knew i had read the book, seeing as it was my permanent companion for several days. At first i was shocked, how are they going to portray such images that are conjured by the book in a film, where real people are acting it out?. It reminded me of the film Sleepers, which also is a film adaptation of another harrowing book, as both books have several simillar aspects (i'm trying not to give away too much from either book but those who have read both will know what i mean).

Now as we all know film adaptations rarely include every aspect of the book, and thats what kind of got me about the film adaptation of TKR, practically every page is vital to the understanding of the book, how can they not include all of it in the film? In Sleepers the more disturbing scenes were suggested/implied to the viewer rather than showing the actual scene take place, i suppose they could do a simillar thing in TKR...

I decided to watch the trailer for TKR (which can be seen here), the first thing that shocked me was the fact that it was a PG-13, i definitely would not allow a 13 year old to read the book ( a sign that the film doesn't include some of the more disturbing/upsetting parts of the novel). However the casting seems brilliant, especially the two main characters and the setting and everything seems perfect too. Yet i still have my doubts about the film, i don't really think it will do the book justice, perhaps it's because the book creates such intense emotion in the reader, it's going to be hard to beat it. I'm curious to watch it though, however i can't say i won't be biased against it....