Movie Review: "Persepolis"

This film is an autobiographical animated work by Iranian ex-patriotic Marjane Satrapi. The story encompasses her early childhood before the Iranian Revolution, her adolescence in Vienna Austria and her return to Iran during and after the Iraq-Iran war. She chronicles her early liberal precocious childhood followed by the draconian stifling society of Tehran while she attends college. In the midst of a childhood crisis, she angrily turns against God.

Most of the animation is black and white, but interesting. The mood is dark and fatalistic. The story ends abruptly without any meaningful closure.