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[โ€“] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

56 is way too young.

Gonna have to (re)watch Persepolis now.

I watched it for the first time only two weeks ago. It was an incredible watch.

I'm really glad I watched it, because it gave me a much more human view of Iran and its people. Satrapi is just one person, of course, so the perspective that Persepolis is only the perspective of one person (though I think that this is why it's such a strong and compelling piece of art). However, watching it helped me to ground the grief I feel at the plight of the Iranian people in something more concrete and compassionate than a nebulous sense of geopolitical dread.