Persepolis

THIS MOVIE WAS FANTASTIC! As a major fan of the graphic novels, I was really pleased with the way the movie portrayed the story. I was immediately blown away by the beautiful way in which the animation feel somewhere between 2 and 3 dimensional but still kept very much to the artwork used in the graphic novels. The movie added to the novel's appeal by taking it from being a linear moving animation to one that twisted and turned. As certain parts went forward others went backward, and while some went up, others went sidways. For me, the most impressive part of the entire movie was the war scene where there were characters using gas masks as the black and white screen demonstrated explosions and public chaos.

The story itself is completely amazing that a leftist revolution was turned into one run by religious fanatics. I feel like that was the most intersting part of the story to me because it was so incredibly horrifying. Just that in the absence of government, many people with many interests will attempt to control the will of the people. This reminded me of V for Vendetta in the way the government was set up there after the fall of the British government, but it was made so much more terrifying in that this was real. I had wondered before how a group of young people who were educated students could have created such a represive regime, but after seeing this movie and reading the graphic novels, I was able to see the seperation that is often lost in Western media.

This movie's stunning visual affects combined with its heartwrenching story were more than enough to make this movie a complete success for me. Later that night I had a conversation with my boyfriend about how terrible I felt it would be to see your country come to the footsteps of freedom and see the progress you worked so hard for be stolen by someone else without the interest of the people in mind. It helped me to put into perspective the discontent I have with America and gave me a better insight into the Iranian revolution.