A luck of a find: Persepolis
Flipping from video to video in Youtube I chanced upon: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, I gleefully shrieked a quiet shriek and clicked play.
I loved the memoir and this little film did not fall short of my expectations. Intelligent, funny witty, and honest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNx4Pa2Gqfk
I would also highly recommend Marjane Satrapi's original graphic novel of an autobiography, who would have thought?
This coming of age memoir is intimately evocative but filled with the right ingredients to make you weep, laugh, love, and get angry which makes it so easy to read that anyone would just want to go on to the next page, and the next- not to mention the absolutely hilarious drawings. Marjane writes about the struggles of an Iranian life (the regime, the government, and the patriarchal culture), of an Iranian girl developing into a teen, and then blooming into a woman in a complex world with such beautiful humor and the ability to show two sides of a person whether it is about her, her grandmother, or even minor characters in the book; as well as both sides of a situation.
She is definitely not a feminist, but a "humanist" never points out that women can be better then men, but only proves that a woman can grow to be strong.
"There is so much good in bad, and so much bad in good." - Marjane Satrapi
I loved the memoir and this little film did not fall short of my expectations. Intelligent, funny witty, and honest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNx4Pa2Gqfk
I would also highly recommend Marjane Satrapi's original graphic novel of an autobiography, who would have thought?
This coming of age memoir is intimately evocative but filled with the right ingredients to make you weep, laugh, love, and get angry which makes it so easy to read that anyone would just want to go on to the next page, and the next- not to mention the absolutely hilarious drawings. Marjane writes about the struggles of an Iranian life (the regime, the government, and the patriarchal culture), of an Iranian girl developing into a teen, and then blooming into a woman in a complex world with such beautiful humor and the ability to show two sides of a person whether it is about her, her grandmother, or even minor characters in the book; as well as both sides of a situation.
She is definitely not a feminist, but a "humanist" never points out that women can be better then men, but only proves that a woman can grow to be strong.
"There is so much good in bad, and so much bad in good." - Marjane Satrapi
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