Essay On Persepolis

Persepolis,based on the graphic novel itself, is a movie about Marjane’s life before and after the

Islamic revolution in Tehran,Iran. Serious and somber as it may look, Persepolis is full of warmth and surprises and alive with humour.

Marjane Satrapi is a rebel and is someone who strongly believes that freedom is her birthright and dares to face anyone who challenges her. She grows up in a family of intellectual,educated people who face many difficulties. First under the ill norms of the Shah’s dictatorship and then as the Islamic revolutionaries turn on their allies,under the rule of the Mullahs. Fearing her safety in Tehran,Marjane’s parents send her to Austria. She first loses herself in the western

European lifestyle but then is shown

The narrative casts the action as a flashback recollected by Marjane whilst sitting at the airport. I feel it’s an apt location for a film this deepy rooted with the sense of transition whether it be with regard to Iran or Marjane herself, two entities that entwine as they develop in two opposite directions. The feeling of belonging to many places at once and yet none at all is omnipresent, creating an undercurrent of miserable friction that, as the lonely conclusion implies, can never be completely resolved.

That desire to fit in, to love and be loved, and to be a part of something, is the story’s universal core, whether it be conveyed via Marjane telling a man at a bar that she’s French, wearing the veil and marrying a lousy Iranian good-for-nothing, or—following a friend’s fatal attempt to leap to safety—accepting that “freedom always has a price” (as Grandma says) and taking a chance for true happiness. The sense that total contentment and inner peace is elusive may linger