In comparison to the book, the movie Persepolis in my opinion had both positive and negative attributes. As we discussed in class, there are several things that can come off as reasons to prefer one over the other. Personally, I am caught in between of liking both the same. As first, i originally preferred the book more because it covered way more detail. However, after the class discussion, there are also several positives that only a movie could show like sound effects, adding voices to characters, visual detail in motion, whereas in the book it was only in square format.
Ultimately, Satrapi's story is intelligently told and shown in both the movie and book. The movie, although missing a few elements and sections, covered her life in great detail allowing the audience to connect, just as they can in reading the book. it was interesting that the movie was also in cartoon format as well as black and white. I believe that these factors added to the "scene" and emotion of the movie.
Overall, Persepolis was a great movie to watch and book to read. In all the works that we have read, we've related them to outcast-hood. One can clearly spot, right from the beginning that Satrapi was an outcast, but she made the best of it, which was inspiring.
Courtney B.
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