Things the movie added to my knowledge of events in the book:
- The biggest component the animation added was weight to the corpses and multitudes to the people walking the streets. These items really put the gruesome events of the wars and the people's demand for revolution in the book seem more intense, graphic, and much much larger events. Before, these events seemed to be small compared to the life story of Satrapi. Now, they add much more to the graphic world scenerey effecting Satrapi.
- The sound effects however, kept the aspect of childhood interpretation. One scene in particular where Anoosh's uncle is executed, the gun makes a popping sound instead of an actual gunshot. It reminded me of one of those popping, cork guns my brother would put next to my ear and annoy me with. It truly captured a child's interpretation of the event while still showing the weight of the death.
- The colorful "present" day sequences gave me some extra perspective of Satrapi's interpretation of herself. It also showed how everything seemed dull around her in the airport of Vienna (?). She was the brightest object in the scene making her thoughts or reactions the most important.
- It also did not occur to me how big of a part speaking french was in her life. I'm not if her family speaking french is only for the movie. However, it did show me how important her french schooling must have seemed to her parents and how difficult it was to transition back into Iranian culture when she returned. It really made her problem of not ever being able to fit in stick out because she speaks french in Iran, but in Vienna no one understood her perspective of life.
