Saturday afternoon. I chose this autobiographical movie "Persepolis" because I would like to watch European animated films once in a while.
The film is based on a graphic book. I have not read the book yet, but from what I can see on the Amazon page, the film is faithful to the original illustration.
My preconception was that since the film was set in the Iran revolution era of the 1970s, produced by France, I expected that there would be some discriminatory elements. My prediction came true.
The first is a scene where a school teacher tears up a textbook, the second is a scene describing God, the third is a scene where grapes are crushed in a bathtub, and the fourth is a scene where a Japanese man in movie "Godzilla" were cursed for cutting stomach open. I do not know if the same expressions are used in the original book, but these scenes should have been cut as they offended the people to watch.
The concept of this film that I realized is the message that "different cultures do not coexist". People have their own national, regional, and local cultures, where multiple cultures coexist cannot be realized.
The message I got from this film can be summed up in this. In fact, the protagonist's grandmother said, "Under the current situation in Iran, you should not go back," but in the end, her granddaughter decided to go to Iran.
Multicultural coexistence is a pipe dream.
So, overall, I give this movie 5 stars because it had both good and bad parts.
The film is based on a graphic book. I have not read the book yet, but from what I can see on the Amazon page, the film is faithful to the original illustration.
My preconception was that since the film was set in the Iran revolution era of the 1970s, produced by France, I expected that there would be some discriminatory elements. My prediction came true.
The first is a scene where a school teacher tears up a textbook, the second is a scene describing God, the third is a scene where grapes are crushed in a bathtub, and the fourth is a scene where a Japanese man in movie "Godzilla" were cursed for cutting stomach open. I do not know if the same expressions are used in the original book, but these scenes should have been cut as they offended the people to watch.
The concept of this film that I realized is the message that "different cultures do not coexist". People have their own national, regional, and local cultures, where multiple cultures coexist cannot be realized.
The message I got from this film can be summed up in this. In fact, the protagonist's grandmother said, "Under the current situation in Iran, you should not go back," but in the end, her granddaughter decided to go to Iran.
Multicultural coexistence is a pipe dream.
So, overall, I give this movie 5 stars because it had both good and bad parts.