Persepolis is an animation about a girl struggling with her life. Her country was facing a political war and an actual war. Her family members were being arrested for their beliefs and she grew up with those same beliefs, and those same beliefs got her into trouble later on in her life. Her country changed customs and the women had to be covered in public. She wasn't covered properly most of the time and that got her into trouble a lot. She also faced trouble with love. She left her country twice, the first time she returned but the second time her mother told her she was to never return. It was a good movie, very interesting. It wasn't like the typical animation you see, it was slightly different. Everything was in black and white and they appeared to be more hand drawn rather than computer animated. This style of animation makes the film reach its goal of adding that dramatic affect the plot seems to propel. The black and white gives it a depressed affect to the depressing story line. I agree with Marjane when she said that part of her decision to use traditional animation was because more high-tech techniques would look dated. I agree because the new techniques of animation would just make the story look modern and it's not. Yes, things like that still occur but the story is about her childhood that took place many years ago. Marjane said that "traditional animation was chosen because, like people, it has imperfections", this statement goes well with the movie because the story was to show how life isn't perfect and if she would've used other types of new animation it would just give it that "perfect" look. Her choice of animation made the movie better and once again it made it reach it's goal of portraying how sad and unfair life could be. Once again I agree with Marjane when she said that "animation has a universal quality that live action does not" because with the use of animation you can add so many affects that you can't do if you were to use real actors and a real setting. She would like to use a universal visual language to tell her story because it doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak, you would understand the film because of that universal visual language. I agree with the film being animated rather than live action because if it were live action it wouldn't have the same type of sad and dramatic affect. No matter how good the actors are, the affects wouldn't be the same.