Persepolis: The Movie vs the Comic

Both the comic version and the movie of Persepolis are both great installments of the story. The movie seems to move a lot faster especially because of the subtitles involved and the french voice play. The comic on the other hand sets an easy pace that allows you to look more in depth at the crisis that faces her and takes more time to set up the picture. I feel like the movie moved much too fast through her early childhood, and did not take enough time at all to develop characters like her grandfather or uncle anoosh. The movie moved so fast that I had to miss alot of the details of the inner story and the scenes of the war. Through the comic book you are able to really see and understand better what little Marji went through with her family during the revolution, the war, and the after effects. Though the movie brought out the second half of the book about her return to Iran and her period in Europe, the comic book allows you to read and re read whatever you need to to understand more aspects of the lives of these special people.