Movie Review: Persepolis

With the beginning of the 2nd term of the English class we initiated a theme that is quite interesting for those who admire everything that is related to Democracy.
There is no better explanation for the democracy’s definition than the actual images that our world provides us every single day.
So in order to better understand this thing called democracy our English teacher presented us a movie (quite incredible I must say), Persepolis.
When I heard that we were going to see a movie that tells us the story of the revolution that happened in Iran in the 80’s my first thought was “I cannot believe that we’re going to see such a boring “documentary””! How wrong I was .
I enjoyed watching that movie because it is just a different way of seeing what happened during a revolution I had no idea about.
The best part of this documentary/movie is that it’s an animated film which is very catchy and easy to understand.

But leaving all this behind we must point out some very serious actions that were made after the movie was released.
For example many Protesters attacked a TV station over the film Persepolis because according to them the movie insulted Islam: “The protesters are angered by fantasy scenes in which God is shown talking to a young girl.”
To be honest I’m very happy that the directors of this particularl movie had the courage to create something like this, something that can explain what happened and what was suffered because of this terrible repression.
Overall I think that Persepolis is a very good documentary/movie and Iwas glad that our teacher showed us something of this size.

So thank you Ana Lima.

Movie Review Persepolis

Persepolis is a movie about a girl’s relationship with her country. Through the movie, we see how the extremely severe and rigid political measures of Iran's government influenced so many lives (Marjane Satrapi’s included) and how the same people handled them.

One of the aspects that I found very interesting about this film was the relationship of Marjane with the different members of her family, especially the one involving her Uncle Anouche. This one defined a great part of her personality when she grew up.That relationship also introduced Marjane to Marxism and made her understand the importance of fighting for what you think its right instead of just going with the flow.

In the end, Persepolis tells the recent History of Iran, while also showing us a heartfelt coming-of-age story.

Film review // Persepolis

I've missed the first 30 minutes of this film, but still, I've liked it. It is a very interesting critic to the reality of conservative Islamic countries which don't respect Human rights, but specially women's rights. Marjane, the unconformist protagonist in this story, passes through a lot of conlicts in her life like having to move to another country and being discriminated there because of her origins, which have nothing to do with who she really is.

With this film, I could only question myself, why the hell don't those women go away from those oppressive countries? This doesn't make sense...

comentary about Persepolis

I think that the film was very interesting because it shows us another reality besides ours.

Marjane went through several problems like the death of her uncle, her friends, the prohibition of the way she could or couldn't dress and how hard it was to live by herself in a different country.

In my opinion, it was also good for the increase of our general knowledge and to foster the discussion of different points of view about several themes.