Islamist law mandates that it is illegal to kill a virgin-she is forced to marry a guard who proceeds to rape her before her execution. Another side story in that demonstrates the impact of the Islamist Persepolis regime occurs when a friend of Marji’s family needs heart surgery. However, when the wife is allowed to speak with the surgeon she finds that the doctor assigned to her husband’s case was their family window washer prior to the revolution. This demonstrates the complete rupture in the culture of Iran enforced by the new regime prior to the revolution as Khomeini effectively removes elites in power positions in order to maintain control of the state. The film comes to a dark ending with Marji’s eventual return to Iran. Marji feels isolated as though she does not belong in her own country because the norms and values have so drastically been altered. Narrating her return, Marji mandates that she felt depressed, unable to cope with the stringent restrictions on her liberties and freedoms that she readily enjoyed in Vienna. In a flash-forward to Marji in her middle age, she describes the mood of the collective body in Iran stating, were so “we eager for happiness, we forgot we weren’t free. Many students were imprisoned after the revolution and so no one dared speak of politics.” This ending explicates the lingering effects of the revolution on the collective identity. Furthermore in stating that one “no dared speak of politics” Marji outlines the impact of cultural trauma on the Iranian people as they have arguably become disillusioned as a whole with politics and revolution due to the failure of the Utopic promise. from the observed pessimism in media outlets such as it is Persepolis important to note that the way in which events played out in the 1979 revolution were inconsistent with the original goals of revolutionary supporters. In this way, Khomeini
Islamist law mandates that it is illegal to kill a virgin-she is forced to marry a guard who proceeds to rape her before her execution. Another side story in Persepolis that demonstrates the impact of the Islamist regime occurs when a friend of Marji’s family needs heart surgery. However, when the wife is allowed to speak with the surgeon she finds that the doctor assigned to her husband’s case was their family window washer prior to the revolution. This demonstrates the complete rupture in the culture of Iran enforced by the new regime prior to the revolution as Khomeini effectively removes elites in power positions in order to maintain control of the state. The film comes to a dark ending with Marji’s eventual return to Iran. Marji feels isolated as though she does not belong in her own country because the norms and values have so drastically been altered. Narrating her return, Marji mandates that she felt depressed, unable to cope with the stringent restrictions on her liberties and freedoms that she readily enjoyed in Vienna. In a flash-forward to Marji in her middle age, she describes the mood of the collective body in Iran stating, “we were so eager for happiness, we forgot we weren’t free. Many students were imprisoned after the revolution and so no one dared speak of politics.” This ending explicates the lingering effects of the revolution on the collective identity. Furthermore in stating that “no one dared speak of politics” Marji outlines the impact of cultural trauma on the Iranian people as they have arguably become disillusioned as a whole with politics and revolution due to the failure of the Utopic promise. from the observed pessimism in media outlets such as Persepolis it is important to note that the way in which events played out in the 1979 revolution were inconsistent with the original goals of revolutionary supporters. In this way, Khomeini
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