Marjane Satrap

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Conversations with Marjane Satrap With the success of autographical movie Persepolis based on the graphic novel works based on her unique experience growing up in Iran and living in France as Iranian, the comic narrative style and memorable illustrations, Marjane Satrapi is one of the most known film director, graphic novelist alive. Her idiosyncratic drawings, funny narrations of the stories, and the memoir style recordings of her real life experiences in multimedia rooted from and are the by-product of her cultural background and her surroundings despite growing up in Iran, the contrast of which made her works close to the political satire when at the same time remains as light-minded and somewhat optimistic about the reality she is …show more content…

The difficulties of not understanding the situation is taken into the consideration by the narration of this film because the majority of the audience can engage in the feeling of struggles between wanting to change one’s self image for the purpose of earning the social acceptance an not feeling comfortable with choosing to transform into something they are not. The director clearly stated the struggles she had to go through during her years in Paris, as she could never completely fit in with any social circles in particular. The author moved to France in a very early stage of her life therefore she has very little sense of belonging to France or Iran regardless of how long the period of time she spend in either of the countries. The progress that the author made toward making sure of the balancing her life from living in the Iranian community that heavily focused …show more content…

It is seen as a touch of lightness on the whole subject of trying to convey her idea and facts into the story. Through her comic expression, some serious subjects like the politics and religion and the people’s reactions and actions in the whole environment makes the point of indifference come across, in comparison to the long time cultural wars on the Arabs and Islams due to ignorance, the material like this can be seen as a thorough examination of what the reality of Islams look like and how they truly do react to the whole religious thing. The mockery of fanaticism is apparent in the story and can demonstrate that the general public, especially due to the radical progressiveness developing due to the disappointment of people in Islamic power, does not partake nor appreciate these constrains that the religion and government imposes upon them. The way the article on how Marjane’s work reflect and represent the societal status said before and the same as the way that the article on Iranian studies says before about the same subject that “her illustrations and the comic style makes the whole appeal more relatable and accessible and it effectively reduces the

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