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Persepolis: Or the tale of A two countries---

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Beautifully made, always sounding right, darker than reality in the West, but dark as dark in Iran.
The Shah was a tyrant, but you could live and when politically active also die, but what came was the enduring horror until our days, a real brutal sadistic man�s world.
A woman film? Yes a woman film, but also a human film and a film for the price of freedom.
Leaning a bit on the communist side ( the bad West, arming Iraq and Iran for slaughtering themselves, well what has Russia done? )-
So Marjane ( Author & co- director ) wants to go back to Iran but can�t.
But it seems that she live happily in Paris.
The colors come back at the end...Yes that must be the price for a certain quality of freedom.
A curiosity, well thought, still ...curiously, no one word about the Khomeni of the horror, I mean the name, of the mass murderer, but the Shah, oh yes very often.
That is what I call the nomenclature of a a biased ideal-

A must for one view.
" Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."

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A superb film. Say what you will, Patrick. - tinear 21:05:42 08/29/08 (3)
The Ayatollah, as reprehensible as he is to us Westerners, is a thoroughly Iranian leader and not a US puppet.
Anyhow, it's a very good film.
Now, see, "A Taste of Cherry."
It's about a guy about your age, post-Iran/Iraq war.
It is nothing less than brilliant.
Kiarastomi is one of the greatest living directors, ranking up with modern film's greatest, period.
- RE: So thry are two categories of mass murderers, the good one, and the bad one the US puppets.. - patrickU 00:57:40 08/30/08 (2)
  Bravo!
  " Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."
  - It isn't about your country or mine but, rather, Iranians'. Which figure - tinear 07:56:04 08/30/08 (1)
    do you think is more popular among them, the Shah or Khomeini?
    Which killed more is arguable. Since we so strongly opposed K, we left him---- as we didn't Ho Chi Minh and many others--- little option than of becoming our enemy. Did our decades of meddling have no impact on post-Shah Iran? How about the rise of SH? US support of him was non-consequential?
    The West has shown that chess, played with real living pieces, obeys NO rules.
    - RE: You did not get it... - patrickU 08:54:38 08/30/08 (0)
      I meant a country with two parts. The oppressed and the oppressors.
      Now you dare to compare the result counted in dead bodies?
      K. made millions of victims.
      Now the Shah?
      People hide there real " I "! And when they got the power...
      " Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."

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