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Persepolis Review

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I finally got to see the wonderful animated film Persepolis about two weeks ago on DVD and have wanted to review it (but health issues held me back from a coherent thought).  So, I finally have a chance to do it.

Plot:  Persepolis is the true story of Marjane Satrapi in revolutionary Iran, her travels to Europe, and back to post Iran-Iraq war Iran.  It’s an amazing perspective on history, from someone living it first hand.  I’ve enjoyed these types of graphic novels more and more (and those probably merit an entry at some point), and look forward to see how this version of story telling evolves.  The story is very sharp but I felt the movie wasn’t as fleshed out as the graphic novel in this department.  It felt choppy at times and a smoothness seemed lacking (weird saying animation wasn’t as smooth as the printed graphics).

Animation: I’ve never really known French animation and enjoyed it very much.  I think I might to see what else is available.  The style fit the graphic novel’s images very well and did bring it’s very stylized look to life.

Voice Acting:  The voice acting is what really threw me off.  I watched the American dubbed version and was put off by the varied voices that didn’t seem to gel together.  It pulled me out of the story a little.  Maybe with subtitles it’d be better, but something was just, well, off.

Extras:  No idea here, I tend to watch the movie and maybe check out extras, I haven’t yet for this.

Movie vs. Graphic Novel:  As I stated above the movie seems like a condensed version of the graphic novel.  And it really comes down to how much time do you have.  If you like to read, go the graphic novel route, and if you don’t the movie is still excellent and might be better since you don’t know what you’re missing.

Verdict:  An excellent story and you can’t go wrong with watching the movie, reading the graphic novel, or both.

So much going on, and two little fun things.

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Well, sorry for the lack of updates for the last week and a half or so. I’m in the hospital and just got internet access, so now I have tons of time on my hands for posts. Here’s what I owe for the future:

Hellboy II and the Dark Knight reviews – These will come when I get out to see the movies. Both have gotten great reviews from friends and I can’t wait to see them. These won’t come until the end of next week the earliest, sigh….

Persepolis Review – Watched the movie this past Saturday and have much to say, but I’ll leave that for the blog post.

Comic reviews – As soon as I’m sprung from the hospital I’m heading to the comic shop, sad I know. I’ll have two or three weeks worth of build up to get to.

But here’s two items to tie you over until then.

First! DCist (a great local DC blog) is covering someone’s trip across the country as he stops at comic shops. I always wanted to try this and can’t wait to read all of the updates. Some of my most fun memories is scavenging for comics or games on trips to Toronto, Rochester, or local shows when I lived in Buffalo. Such fun times. You can read the article here.

Second! So, sitting in a hospital with no internet connection until now (thank you coworkers!) you watch a lot of tv. The Daily Show last night had Jon Stewart interviewing one of the stars of the Dark Knight where he attempts to get into his comic reading habit.  You can check out the video here (sorry catching up on a lot and don’t have time to post the embed).

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