Persepolis Shows The Power of Shapely Eyes

Funny how when some people come to visit, I finally get out and do some of the things I really enjoy. Like go see a movie in a theater. Sam is visiting, so we went to an evening show of Persepolis, an animated movie in French about an Iranian girl.
The movie was dramatic in the use of eyes. These saucer-shaped eyes, able to so precisely indicate the mood, the tone, such careful drawing, most of the film was in black white, then there are a a few minutes in color.
You see a head-one attack on the regime in Iran, the mullahs who took over in 1980, and imprisoned far more people than the wicked Shah did. Reading it with subtitles over the French dialogue gave each of the politically charged words extra meaning. The point was that people suffer in revolutions, and chafe under the hard pressure of the religious police.

It was a rolling up and down back tracing of a girl’s life. She was named Marjane Satrapi, and her life is a fascinating one that sheds light on Iranian culture and how it feels to be Iranian if one is living in Europe.