Delicious kitsch

Acknowledged as one of the world’s great director, Wes Anderson is generally known to the wide audience due to “Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Moonrise Kingdom”. And everybody likes his movies, because everybody loves the fairy tales. This is a great secret of the Anderson’s popularity: make people believe in magic again. In the first one, the doorman becomes rich by accident and the second one, the very young couple decided to run away from the camp to live happy ever after.

All of these stories are impossible to happen. We are the spectators watching the show. In contrast to the normal movie where there is a still illusion of the reality, here we are aware that we participle in the theater. Nothing is really, not even the special effects or the script.

The image is a compilation of the Disney World and baroque horror vacui. You can find in that film anything you want: colours, unbelievable adventures, picturesque landscapes, etc. But what is a purpose of it? Maybe it is like a really big box with nothing inside it?

His creations are just a reflection of American taste, like Madonna Inn (an unusual motel) or Hearst castle (mansion of newspaper magnate – the inspiration to create a “Citizen Kane”). Most of people watch the movies in order to forgot about their miserable life, they don't spend the time in the research to find a truth or give a meaning to their existence. Generally, we prefer magic, good looking scenography and the happy ending.

But in the case of art, it is really easy to cross the border and become a kitsch artist, who doesn't have much to say.

Persian punk

The citizens of Iran were always pride of their heritage. In comparison to other muslin countries, they weren’t just a bunch of shepherds gathered in some tribes. The name of the city “Persepolis” was known from Atlantic Ocean to the Chine. Everybody spread the stories about the brave Persian people like Cyrus II or Darius I. In fact the art was spectacular, in particular the craftsmanship (everybody has heard about Persian carpets). Most people were believers of Zoroastrianism – one of the first monotheistic religions in the world. Instead of the conquests of Alexander the Great and after- the Muslin, the memory of a great empire survived.

Now, you can imagine that you are a litter girl growing up in the Iran in 80s during the religion revolution. Everything what was important to you have been destroyed by fanatics.  You fell very angry, disappointed, confused, you want to rebel but you don't know how. Your country is becoming some Arabic province where the culture and the liberty is no longer a value.

“Persepolis” is an animated film, but only for adults. Undoubtedly because of this image people, who don’t know the history of Iran, have a possibility to understand the difficult problem of this religious revolution. During watching, you can ask yourself a question: how is it possible?

The movie is based on the memories of Marione Satrapi – well-known graphic novelist living in Paris.