Persepolis!

So we’re watching the movie version of this grahic novel and there is one thing I noticed immediately. While the graphic novel seemed like it flowed together into one smooth story, the movie does the opposite. The movie seems more like it starts and stop, over and over. For a minute we are seeing one event that happens to Marji, and then skip to another part of her life. However, after looking back at the book, I realized it did the same thing, talking about one event, then moving to the next. The reason this flows in the graphic novel and not in the movie is because reading takes longer than watching it. What I mean is if you are reading a chapter, you have to read what the characters are saying, look at the illustration, picture the scene and figure out what is going out. In a movie, you are told the scene, there is nothing to imagine, and the scenes of Persepolis seem to fly by.