Persepolis Review

I LOVED the Persepolis animation, I love that the drawings were so simple, yet the messages within the movie were so powerful and big. To me, the comic book, seemed somewhat like the animatic for the film. They were both very similar (of course the film is based on the comic so it should be related). The movements and motion of the characters were very believable  for example when the two women were examining her jacket and her Micheal Jackson pin, the movements were so vast, seamless. The gray scale also gave the movie a more serious tone. based on the Wikipedia article, Satrapi explained that the movie was in black and white because it "was so the place and the characters wouldn't look like foreigners in a foreign country but simply people in a country to show how easily a country can become like Iran." This tactic works very well because it helps set the mood, tone and the setting (Iran) of the story. Not only that, but the film's characters are exactly like the comic, therefore it should be the same color, like the comic, so the fans of the comic would appreciate the similarities between the book and the film.

The difference between the comic and the animation, is that the comic is separated into two books, with one book about Satrapi's childhood and one about her in adulthood  While, the film has her from childhood to adulthood. The comical aspects of the film, also brings it alive.