Persepolis

Most of this week’s class was filled with watch Persepolis, a movie that started as two graphic novels. I really enjoyed this movie, even though I have not read the book to compare. My favorite person in this movie was the Grandma because she was her own person and never seemed to lose sight of what was important to her. She tried to help guide her granddaughter from doing wrong and losing sight of what their family had fought and died for. Towards the end of the film we learn that the Grandma went against society’s belief by getting a divorce; I was taken back when she said “The first marriage is just practice for the second.” When thinking about parts of the movie that somewhat disturbed me I must say that the grocery store stands out the most in my mind. When the mother is at the grocery store with her daughter a man tells her to pull down her headscarf and that he bangs hundreds of women like her every day. I just found it so offensive that a women has to stand there and endure that kind of insult from someone that she does not know and that a mother could let her child grow up to talk to women like that. It was pointed out that some people may be offended by the depiction of God that was given in the movie, but to be honest I had not thought about it. I just saw the image and thought the author could draw this image however they wished. Overall I thought that Persepolis was a great movie, but not something that I would show to children until high school just because of some things that occur throughout the film.