Six Animated Films to Watch While Quarantined
I don’t think I need to explain to you what COVID-19 is or how it affects your daily lives, and since the title says it all anyways, let’s dive right in.
Persepolis (France/Iran)
Directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
If you grew up in America and went to high school in the last decade, chances are your English teacher assigned you Marjane Satrapi’s moving graphic novel about her tragic upbringing amidst the chaos of post-revolutionary Iran. Chances also are that, while you were delighted to have been assigned a comic book rather than an actual book (you know, one that’s all words and no pictures), you never really read it anyway. If that’s the case, maybe it’s time to revisit the story with a more mature and appreciative mind through this faithful film adaption. Bringing the minimalistic, black-and-white art style from the original comic to life, Persepolis exposes the narrow-minded hypocrisy that lies at the very core the Ayatollah’s fundamentalist regime without shying away from also illustrating the perverse influence ideology of any kind can have on the impressionable mind of a young person. Perhaps the single most influential graphic novelist besides Art Spiegelman, Satrapi reassess history through images with such profundity it would have surely made the great salon painters quite jealous.
You can watch Persepolis on Amazon Prime, Sundance Now and Vudu.
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Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs