Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Oppression as Animation

Persepolis which I watched last weekend, is not the first film to represent injustices done to a culture or a race that does not resort to graphically violent images.

It is the first I've seen though that shows that Iranian women do know how to party in the privacy of their own homes, and that not even the depiction in American Dad in the Middle East showed everything.

It also shows aspiring filmmakers and artists that it doesn't take fancy stylized artwork to sell a story, just having a lot of meat in that story.

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