Persepolis

This movie was really good, I felt. You get the sense that either Marjane was either involved with all these communist/radical ideas from a very young age, or during her time in Europe, was finally able to express herself as her mother had done. The best male character in the movie was the father, who actually maintained and portrayed a mutual relationship at home, in a world where such ideas were either frowned upon, or not followed by the women who were afraid.

God is a very strange character in our class, but more so in Persepolis. He stands to reason with his prophet, but she will not listen. This is a much more caring and understanding God than I expected from an Islamic mindset, especially towards a young woman. Also, Tehran is much more culturally and socially more sophisticated than I thought. That was certainly interesting.