Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed ...
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power - forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
As she gets older, Marjane's boldness causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. And so, at age fourteen, they make the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. In addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Over time, she gains acceptance, and even experiences love, but after high school she finds herself alone and horribly homesick.
Though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society, Marjane decides to return to Iran to be close to her family. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, all the while continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.
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The black-and-white animation, highly stylized and two dimensions which doesn't attempt to render the usual cartoon 3-D, summarizes in quick, intelligent flashes, often impressionistic, growing up in Teheran and Vienna from a highly personal point of view.I Enjoyed Watching This Movie At BigOnlineMovies . c o m
I get it I get it, white people are the best they have a right to go in, make slaves colonise and then shun every other culture but theres ...we should all be white i get it i get it...yaaaay lets make more anti non white culture videos an be proud...yeaaahh....thatll teach the non whites for wanting to have there own society...lets demonise more muslims and create more fear and difference with the world..lets spread more misinfo an one sided racist opinions..yaaay....NOT!!!!!
germanicus24, would you care to explain why you see this film as nti-Iranian propaganda? Have you seen it? While it does truthfully portray lots of violence and political issues, I personally dont know if these are accuraste r not because i was not IN Iran from 1970's to 1980's, in fact i havent been to iran at all. But the main charcter and her family are Iranian, good people, and proud of their heritage, so i dont see it as anti iranian prpagnada
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would you care to explain why you see this film as nti-Iranian propaganda? Have you seen it? While it does truthfully portray lots of violence and political issues, I personally dont know if these are accuraste r not because i was not IN Iran from 1970's to 1980's, in fact i havent been to iran at all. But the main charcter and her family are Iranian, good people, and proud of their heritage, so i dont see it as anti iranian prpagnada
Great work demonizing Iran based on extremist lies.