Persepolis

it is out. Finally on screen after more than 2 years of work. I hope it will be as good as the comics, but I'm confident Marjane Satrapi is talented enough to achieve a great adaptation of her comic series Persepolis.

There is a thing she said that i appreciated a lot : the subjectivity of her story and how it was easier for oneself to identify himself to one person rather than many. that stigmatizing Muslims people we reduce them to abstract notions that are way much easier to bomb than "human beings".

Same thing apply with Iran on which so many people will only be able to speak of the country in terms of ; scarf, women condition and human rights issues... Well those problems do exist but they're part of a bigger reality. And this reality is important to remind first. That is why i tried to avoid the painful questions (which are not questions by the way much more evidences) in my pictures. Iran does not need me to relay the sadness of its situation, Ahmadinejad does it very well by himself.

On the other hand, flickr is such a great way to stick with the basics, what do iranian eat ? of what is made their daily life ? what do they enjoy in life ? what does a happy iranian looks like ? because, as Farhang said once, happiness is their certain right too. This is to be reminded before even thinking of hazardous theories and "evilizing" that has not been particularly helped to become a more peaceful country than the one it is today - in regards to its international relationships.

So let's go back to the basics for a while now...