grow up like you

Nadia 2022-03-23 09:02:00

I don't know when, I gradually thought that I had become a person who would not cry while watching a movie. But just an hour ago, "I grew up in Iran" nonchalantly overturned this conclusion - I gradually become a person who no longer draws conclusions about myself, because there is always something new to come. The only meaning of the so-called conclusion may be to wait to be overturned by these new things.
Tears can flow from the windows of the soul, from the depths of the eyes, probably because the heart is really touched by instinct. In a sense, the hometown also has such an instinct for everyone - we have no right to choose our hometown, we don't have the right to choose where to grow up, and the hometown becomes a natural part of ourselves like our own flesh and blood.
But no matter where you grow up, I think everyone is the same: you will inevitably encounter a life like Marjane, going to a foreign land, falling out of love, sleeping on the street, giving up on yourself, getting divorced, being true to yourself, and pursuing freedom. Fortunately, Marjane always has a grandmother who puts jasmine in her bra, and tells Marjane to be true to herself and to be free in her life. Fortunately, this movie came to my life tonight and let me know warmly: When I used to go to a foreign land to give up myself like Marjane, a movie like this was waiting for me here and told me like a grandmother who put jasmine in her bra: be true to yourself and be free.

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  • Mallory 2021-12-15 08:01:06

    I watched it with my heart, but apart from the animation, I didn’t find any goodness~~

  • Lloyd 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Simple and simple animation style is very flattering. It is a memoir of a rebellious Iranian young woman who loves Western music, and it is also a foreigner's example of the contemporary history of Iran, a mysterious, authoritarian and closed country. The heroine is lucky, she can go abroad and live in a free country. What about other Iranian women? Repressed and authoritarian at home, living abroad is also unsatisfactory. this is life. Grandma's character is very magical and philosophical. //20180816 China Film Archive Screening. Film version. After five years, I will still be moved by the plot of suffering and separation, but after watching animations such as "Tehran Taboo" and "The Breadwinner", I can't help but feel that the Iranian part of the film is too weak, and the later stage is more rambling. If you can go abroad to live abroad, the heroine is really much happier than most Iranian women. Compared with the expression of intellectuals' disappointment with the Iranian revolution, it seems to be a kind of propaganda that "you will know the goodness of the motherland when you go abroad". Samsung and a half

Persepolis quotes

  • Paris Taxi Driver: Where are you from?

    Marjane (voice over): Iran.

  • Policeman: Why are you running?

    Marjane as a teenager: I'm late for my class!

    Policeman: Maybe, but you mustn't run. When you run, your behind moves around in an obscene way.

    Marjane as a teenager: [angry] Then stop staring at my ass!