{"id":486,"date":"2008-02-10T01:28:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/486"},"modified":"2016-08-31T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:43:58","slug":"persepolis-2007-marjane-satrapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/486","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis (2007, Marjane Satrapi)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud. Tied with Silent Light<\/em> for the jury prize at Cannes.<\/p>\n

Beautifully illustrated and well-animated story, alternately light and heavy, following author\/director Marjane’s life from the mid-late 70’s to the mid 90’s. I have to grudgingly admit that the people who say the second half of the film isn’t as good are kinda right, but overall it’s such a wonderful movie, the kind that I wish I could make everybody watch: an artistic movie promoting peace, cross-cultural understanding and individual integrity. I love that the phrase “the price of freedom” is invoked not to justify the loss of lives in a “freedom fighting” war, but as a personal cost, that Marjane’s final flight from Iran to France for the sake of her personal freedom will mean never seeing her grandmother again.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t know anything about Iranian history or politics, here’s a timeline combining this movie’s events with stuff from wikipedia and IMDB:<\/p>\n

1921 – Qajar Dynasty ends, the “good” Shah is in power
\n1941 – Shah’s son takes control
\n1950s- new Shah becomes “increasingly autocratic”
\n1963 – The House Is Black<\/a><\/em>
\n1969 – The Cow<\/em>
\n1969 – Marjane Satrapi born
\n1970 – Kiarostami’s first short film
\n1974 – The Traveler<\/a><\/em>
\n1977 – The Report<\/em>
\n1979 – Shah leaves the country, Iran becomes an Islamic Republic under supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini
\n1980 – Iraq invades Iran
\n1984 – Marjane goes to Vienna
\n1987 – Where Is The Friend’s Home?<\/a><\/em>
\n1987 – The Cyclist<\/em>
\n1988 – Iraq\/Iran war ends
\n1989 – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei becomes supreme leader
\n1989 – Khameini issues fatwa against Salman Rushdie
\n1989 – Marjane gets married in Tehran
\n1990 – Close-Up<\/a><\/em>
\n1994 – Marjane gets divorced
\n1995 – The White Balloon”
\n1997 – Taste of Cherry<\/em>
\n1998 – The Apple<\/em>
\n1999 – The Wind Will Carry Us<\/a><\/em>
\n2000 – The Circle<\/em>
\n2000 – Persepolis<\/em> book published
\n2001 – Kandahar<\/a><\/em>
\n2002 – Ten<\/a><\/em>
\n2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is president (still under Khamenei)
\n2006 – Offside<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud. Tied with Silent Light for the jury prize at Cannes. Beautifully illustrated and well-animated story, alternately light and heavy, following author\/director Marjane’s life from the mid-late 70’s to the mid 90’s. I have to grudgingly admit that the people who say the second half of the film isn’t as good are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,34,31,37],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-france","tag-politics","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}