Persepolis
Persepolis
PG-13 | 22 February 2008 (USA)
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

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cjaramillo6943

Worth to see. I've seen it 3 times, this movie shows us another point of view about Iran, the point of view of an Iranian who's also suffering all the massive effects of the Iranian Revolution. The media isn't showing what some Iranians have done to escape from the revolution

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klieu

The following story is my imagined encounter I had a dream that would be feasible for a Stalinist version of Persepolis, since the only people who would be biking, skating, or inline skate street sport partakers in California would be a young person who is probably educated with a Common Core that is close to French abstract studies. It is highly possible as a eclipsed review since the only person that would be forgiven passively for their imagining that Persepolis or the war in Tehran, Iran in the years depicted in the war movie would have top be someone who feels their life is in a war to stay in a dreamily state they perceive as real, so in that state, they could even imagine that the war was made up and that they are a person who was drafted into some sort of war just in order to realize they were the female narrator in the story who merely yearned to receive their university education: I was in a pit bull-riven area of San Leandro, CA and I got so afraid I would be mulled by one but it turns out that there was one fence that looked closed but it was open and two large borzoi dogs who look very smart, private and caring after each other, and were deep black/brown redhead dog couple they used their nose to pry the open fence a bit more open but then the one closest to the outside of the fence used it's nose to hold the fence a hinge close except for a ruler length and it didn't attack me, or the couple borzoi did not because they saw I was a woman who was skateboarding and who had stopped and I didn't go forward so I am holding at my mercy a few skateboarders and inline skaters in my neighborhood since I won't go back to where the dogs are and on top of that, they may just be stupid youth who will be mauled by the dog(s) in that area instead, and so because the universe knows that, the spirits in them that are good and want to be a body that will survive because they know they will be at a higher chance of getting killed by their body master's depression after they get pulled apart by the dogs for not being me... so I'm trying to see if I can suck the spirits out of them have a better body or master or whatever u call it.Sun 8:31pm I lied I made that up because I had a nightmare that Tehran of Persepolis in the Iranian war was a made up event called Stalinism since it could be that a person could have just made up Tehran of that year that they as a man got drafted and the main character in Persepolis got to study in France! Since it would make since that if a person who is in a neighborhood with dogs, at the beginning of Persepolis they release dogs to run after the dude and so he gets attacked but in my lie I just told you I am a ghost that always haunts and taunts the person who is imagining a made up Tehran of Iran in the war years, since only a person who is unconscious is not guilty of thinking that their reality is made up to any extent or brink that would somehow manufacture to their brain that they are still in the real world and their fantasy a real reality they live in real life and the person who saw the two borzoi and was spared, well they keep taunting this poor person hooked up to a ventilator since, if it was just one memory of their being mauled apart by pit bulls then, technically that vision of the smart borzoi would be their saving grace in an alternate universe where they were not mauled and left in a coma for the rest of their life.

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SnoopyStyle

Marjane Statrapi struggles with her identity as she recalls her childhood in revolutionary Iran. Starting from 1978 in Tehran, her family is middle class. Even though they live a comfortable modern life, they also suffer under the dictatorial rule of the Shah. Her family rejoice at his overthrow at first. However, Islamic fundamentalists turn the new regime into a repressive tyranny. After suffering years of war and deprivation, her parents sent her away to study in Vienna. Life abroad isn't easy either, and she had difficulties fitting in. When she returns to Iran, she is completely lost. Just as things improve personally and the war ends, the repression gets worst.It's an animated movie based on Marjane Statrapi's personal comic novel. The use of simple animation brings her childhood observations to life. However it doesn't do the same thing when she's more grown up. The second half of the movie isn't quite as fascinating. The animation style doesn't do her adult years with enough justice. Complex ideas and emotions seem to be simplified by the block style drawings.

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Benjiman fowler

I thought the film was boring because it is not a film I would normally watch also I didn't get in to the film because of it being in black and white. Good things about the film are that it uses good techniques by putting emphasis using just the colours black and white. Also the film would not work without the setting of the film being in Iran. A bad thing about the film is that it has a lot of swearing and bad treatment of women. In conclusion the film has good points but I don't like it because it is not my type of film even though it shows good techniques. i would not watch this film again but other people might enjoy it more than i did

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