In Marjane Satrapi Persepolis (2007), the influence of strong and submissive female characters was one of the main theme in the movie. Women such as Marji, her mother, grandmother displayed a rebellious role throughout the film. However, not at all of the women in Persepolis displayed that attitude, as some women obeyed the gender bias laws and enforced them within each other. From protesting, ignoring a gender bias law, or accepting things how they were. Persepolis uses a spectrum of women to highlight that women will or will not conform to social inequalities in an oppressed and totalitarian state. The Iran revolution created different expectations, rules and standards, for women and men. Society believes that women should not be seen
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While out buying illegal music, Marji is caught by the Guardians of the Revolutions. The Guardians of the Revolutions is a group of women that arrests women, who are improperly wearing their veil. The women chastises and grabs Marji. They threaten to have her arrest and take to the committee. When Marji is begging and pleading, not to be taken away a Dominant and high angle shot is used. Marji is surrounded by darkness and the only thing that the viewers can see is Majir face and the Guardians hands. The high angle gives Marji the appearance of wear and vulnerable, one of the few times in the film that she does not appear strong, as she begs them not to turn her in. The shot simulates that even women can oppressed other women, by acceding to …show more content…
Being that her grandmother is independent and progressive, she tells Marji that divorce is not a big deal and that she divorced her husband and that the first marriage is practice. Dolly zoom is used to spotlight the positive influence that Marji grandmother has on her. Marji sits at the table and her head is slump in her hands with tears streaming down her face. As her grandmother connives her that divorce is not bad, the camera zooms in Marji rising her head up because she knows that her grandmother advice will not lead her a stray. The grandmother lies to the soldiers to appear weak, so that she can protect her family from the prohibition that bans all alcohol. After, Marji and her grandmother silhouette can be seen running up the stairs to dispose of the alcohol. The animated silhouette gives of the illusion that Majri grandmother is not weak. She runs swiftly up the stairs, as fast as Majri. The scene is suggesting that although Marji grandmother is strong, she will pretend to be weak, to appease the males in her society, if it means that she is able to protect her
While out buying illegal music, Marji is caught by the Guardians of the Revolutions. The Guardians of the Revolutions is a group of women that arrests women, who are improperly wearing their veil. The women chastises and grabs Marji. They threaten to have her arrest and take to the committee. When Marji is begging and pleading, not to be taken away a Dominant and high angle shot is used. Marji is surrounded by darkness and the only thing that the viewers can see is Majir face and the Guardians hands. The high angle gives Marji the appearance of wear and vulnerable, one of the few times in the film that she does not appear strong, as she begs them not to turn her in. The shot simulates that even women can oppressed other women, by acceding to …show more content…
Being that her grandmother is independent and progressive, she tells Marji that divorce is not a big deal and that she divorced her husband and that the first marriage is practice. Dolly zoom is used to spotlight the positive influence that Marji grandmother has on her. Marji sits at the table and her head is slump in her hands with tears streaming down her face. As her grandmother connives her that divorce is not bad, the camera zooms in Marji rising her head up because she knows that her grandmother advice will not lead her a stray. The grandmother lies to the soldiers to appear weak, so that she can protect her family from the prohibition that bans all alcohol. After, Marji and her grandmother silhouette can be seen running up the stairs to dispose of the alcohol. The animated silhouette gives of the illusion that Majri grandmother is not weak. She runs swiftly up the stairs, as fast as Majri. The scene is suggesting that although Marji grandmother is strong, she will pretend to be weak, to appease the males in her society, if it means that she is able to protect her