Member review

Persepolis is the animated and auto-biographical story of a young Iranian girl who is growing up during the time of conflict in the country of Iran, and her struggles her interests in a time of conflict in her government. The whole film is animated in this particular way and I think its the most important character in the film, there are a lot of shadows and often when she recalls something sad or dark the shot will dissolve into darkness. Also the military men who often wrongfully enforce there power and discrimination all there faces are drawn the same they are literally the same person, I think this is a metaphor for the way she sees these men who are just committing these acts, and they are not just men under orders they are they believe this, they are all just the dame person doing these horrible things. The only real complaint I have about this film is some of the voice acting it feels like they sped a little bit in post-production, which may have just happened when transferring the different languages, one thing that I loved is Iggy Pop as her revolutionist uncle and if you know anything about him or like simply the idea of somebody going against the system but I just thought that as good as the main actress was Iggy pop steals a lot of the scenes. So this story is honestly a bit weird because it felt like I was just watching the her life and then this Iranian politics was a big backdrop, which was great and I don't want to say much more except I don't think your going to like this character unless you really like the theme of revolting against a discriminating system any way you can. watch it and don't read about it before you see it.