Comments on See Persepolis

The glory of Persopolis lies not only in its stunningly attractive black & white animation, but in its ability to show the tyranny of Iran's Islamic revolution and the mental horror of adolescence with equal dynamism.

I, too, loved it. Thought the first part did a perfect job of showing what the revolution must have been like from an eight year old's point of view. Definitely one of my recent favorites...

for sure. best movie i've seen in a long time.

Persepolis was great - my son loved it and so did I and all my friends - highly recommended.

Persepolis is a wonderful film, accomplishing what the entirety of Wikipedia never could in conveying how the revolution really affected people.

Persepolis was robbed in the foreign film category!! Stupid Oscars.

@5,
A fiction book that was published in the late 80s or early 90s, Women of Deh Koh, did an excellent job talking about the Iranian revolution from the perspective of everyday people as well. Check it out, if you can find it:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n75/ai_12291919

In case you missed Marjane Satrapi's crazy funny appearance on The Colbert Report, le voila:

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=148508

She's so cool...

Well I've already seen it, but if I didn't, I totally would the second I found out Will, his son and his friends loved it.

I went into this film expecting to like it, left loving it, and woke up the next morning thinking it was the best movie I had seen in a long time.

Great film, great book. It shows the betrayal of socialists and other iranian marxists by the islamists. it shows again, who really over-threw the Sha and how this minority gained power. it happened in palestine, it happened all over. the lefties were offed. revolution betrayed.