Directed by Marc Forster
Written by Khaled Hosseini (novel) and David Benioff (screenplay)
jh: 
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What’s the story about?
It’s about a man who finds a magic cup. And he learns that if he weeps into the cup, his tears turn to pearls. He’s very poor, you know? And, at the end of the story, he’s sitting on a mountain of pearls with a bloody knife in his hand and his dead wife in his arms.
So he killed her?
Yes, Hassan.
So that he’d cry and get rich.
Yes, you’re very quick. What?
Nothing Amir agha. Are you done with breakfest?
What?
Well, will you permit me to ask a question about a story?
Of course.
Why did the man have to kill his wife?
Because each of his tears becomes a pearl.
Yes, but why couldn’t he just smell an onion?
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What happened to the trees?
The Russians chopped them down.
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