Persepolis Movie

The Persepolis movie is a movie 2007 French animated movie that speaks of a young Iranian girl, and her coming of age against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution. The young girl is named Marjane, and throughout her young life she faces many difficulties. Because of the Iranian revolution, she leaves her native country of Tehran at the age of nine. As a young girl, she had dreams of being like her idol, Bruce Lee, and she wished for a better society, and times in her native country, thus she and her middle class family supported the U.S. backed shan of Iran. Later on in the movie, the Iran war breaks out, and Marji sees her father threatened by the government, and the government bans many simple pleasures. As she grows up, her parents send her to Vienna Austria, as a way for her to stay out of trouble and to seek safety from the government being that she is outspoken against them. She goes to a christian public school, but however she faces lots of discrimination from the teachers, nuns, and students, and in essence feels isolated, and lonely. She is made fun of because she is Iranian, and doesn't make any friends. But she does fall in love with a ugly guy, who then cheats on her on her eighteenth birthday. She becomes homeless, and almost dies of bronchitus, and is then fully determined to return back to her homeland. Here she then begins enoying life once again, but finds out that the Iranian society is even worse than when she left. At the end of the movie however, Marji leaves the country for good, and her grandmother later dies. Similarities between the movie persepolis and my own life is that we have both faced the difficulty of standing up for what we saw was wrong and unjust. Also we both are immigrants in a different country, thus we have both faced discrimination and injustice from those around us. Differences however are that we both live in different eras, and she is Iranian, and I'm Nigerian. I saw from the movie, details of the Iranian war that I didn't know before, and I even saw aspects of Iranian culture that I didn't know before, along with the communists ideals of the Iranian past.