2008
7
[ Entertainment
Persepolis brings identity crisis to life in graphic novel
K e l s e y S c h r a d er
Staff Reporter
"Persepolis" is Marjane
(prounounced Mar-JOHN)
Satrapi's charming, yet
tormented, search for self
identity and sense of a
home during Iran's troubled
political and social past,
illustrated and narrated by
Satrapi herself. "Persepolis" is
a touching autobiography of
Iranian and Western identity.
The graphic novel is
Satrapi's memoir of growing
up as a young girl in Tehran,
Iran during the 70's and 80's,
depicted through simple
black-and-white cartoon
pictures. Her story begins
at age six, in 1979, when the
Islamic Revolution and the
fall of the Shah took place.
Before the revolution, Irani
girls like Satrapi didn't have
to wear scarves over their
hair and faces, and although
the country wasn't perfect,
the citizens had many
freedoms they no longer
have. Due to the revolution,
however, many things in
^^S atrap i's life change; her
bilingual school is closed
d<5wn, schools are separated
by gender, and she is forced
to wear a veil at all times.
Satrapi's story depicts her
own struggle with political
conflict, revolutionary
parents, and her identity
crisis in an oppressive society
during the Iran/Iraq war.
Satrapi decided to
write the novel due to her
extraordinary story and
her desire to share with the
world the problem of the
international stereotype of
Iranian women. Her decision
to use a graphic novel to
portray the story wasn't
symbolic in any way, but
was probably the best way to
convey her memoir without
losing the audience's interest.
"Image is an international
language... it is more
accessible," Satrapi said.
"People don't take it so
seriously. And when you
want to use a little bit of
humor, it's much easier to use
pictures."
"Persepolis," the film, was
directed by Satrapi as well as
Vincent Paronnaud, and was
released in France last June.
The movie follows the book
and its sequel in the same
animation style the novel
portrayed,
and won the
Jury Prize
at the 2007
Cannes film
festival.
Recently,
"Persepolis"
arrived in
the animation made the
movie interesting to watch.
However, it was sometimes
hard to follow due to the
French dialogue with English
subtitles, and unless you
read the book previously, the
movie didn't do a great job
at explaining her situation.
"Persepolis" is currently
playing at select theaters.
New theater provides cheaper alternative
M a x H a yes
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Although the movie didn't
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between the first book,
and its sequel, "Persepolis
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It was very artistic, and
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After watching "Vantage
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Trashy TV shows need to clean up
SfTW sets bad example________ u
Continued from page 3
Every year herds of
college students migrate to
a tourist beach for a week of
drinking, dancing, wearing
next to nothing and probably
regretting it all the next ♦
morning. I understand it's
what some people do on
Spring Break, but should
it really consume an entire
channel for a
whole week?
We all
know MTV
is mainly for
teenagers, a
population
which
already faces
pressures
each day
to make
wrong decisions. So why is
the channel that claims to be
about the music, such a bad
influence on today's youth?
Well the money of course!
But the head honchos at MTV
should know that watching
other people party isn't the
only thing that entertains us.
Trashy shows such
as "Date My Mom" and
"Pimp My Ride" are cheap
entertainment, but probably
have more influence on us
than we think. According
to the Parents Television
Council, "MTV is watched
by 73% of boys and 78% of
girls ages 12 to 19, and it is
profoundly influential in the
lives of its young fans by
glamorizing drug and alcohol
use, sexual promiscuity and
violent behavior. MTV airs
(on average) nine sexual
scenes per hour and more
than eight un-bleeped
profanities per hour."
I will admit MTV is
starting to air shows that
actually matter such as
"Choose or Loose," a show to
inform and encourage young
voters, or "True Life," a
series of documentaries that
inform viewers of different
people and circumstances
such as obsessive-compulsive
disorder, immigration, eating
disorders and poverty. But
even so,
MTV's
Spring Break
Special
continues to
disgust me
year after
year. Not
only that, but
its boring.
Why
would I
want to watch people party
for a week? I'm actually
worried for someone who
enjoys sitting on a couch
watching people drink. What
happened to the days when
we went out and rode our
bikes during Spring Break?
MTV viewers are our future
and I just think the station
officials should take this
into consideration instead of
attempting to turn our brains
to mush.
I know I don't have to
watch MTV if I don't like
it, but it astonishes me how
low the standards are-all
in order to make money.
Shows directed towards
teens should be helpful and
entertaining, not boring and
harmful.
This Spring Break, go out
and participate in something
fun instead of sitting back
and viewing the ridiculous
trash MTV chooses to show.