May 16, 2008

Satrapi's 'Persepolis': Good versus evil, again (The Guardian)

Finally I sat down and wrote about 'Persepolis', Marjane Satrapi's anti-Iran's Spielberg-backed piece of propaganda. Here it is:

Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis': Good versus evil, again (The Guardian)

Persepolis is a black-and-white film which also adopts a very black-and-white view of Iran, Hossein Derakhshan writes.

May 15, 2008

Marjane Satrapi's film, Persepolis must have made George Bush and his new ally, Nicolas Sarokzy, quite happy. After all, despite Satrapi's rhetoric against the two leaders, her film's core argument is one that Bush and Sarkozy have long been busy constructing: the evil state versus the wonderful people.

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Posted by hoder at May 16, 2008 3:28 PM| TrackBack

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