Persepolis a Humanist Tale
June 2, 2008
“It looks like a wonderful film, it’s getting great notices, but be careful: you might start considering the Iranian people human beings.” Stephen Colbert
More of Marjane | Persepolis Trailer
For a far superior, though less hilarious, interview with Marjane Satrapi follow this link to Link TV. Where she explains that education through art, culture and literature is the true paths to human achievement, enhancement and change. A proposition for a better world which is the very antithesis of the US doctrine: she defines her work as fighting ignorance, a weapon of mass construction.
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But some Iranians see Persepolis as an AIPAC-type propganda. Check out this piece for instance:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/hossein_derakhshan/2008/05/good_versus_evil_again.html