24 April, 2015

Persepolis

Couple clips from the film-version of Marjane Satrapi's brilliant graphic novels about her life growing up in Iran through the revolution and the war with Iraq.  Strange how ones willingness to just bomb a people consistently portrayed as two-dimensional cartoon villains can change when one gets a sense of the actual flesh-and-blood humans behind the propaganda.



Apparently, the film is available to watch for a fee on YouTube, if one wanted.  I don't know what the form-factor or quality would be like, or whether one would have a choice in English-speaking regions between the subtitled French soundtrack (watch that one unless you really really hate subtitles) or the 'celebrity' American soundtrack.  I'm assuming it's still available to buy on DVD or Blu-ray, and the original graphic novels are cool as well.

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