Looking for an activity to fill in some time on Saturday, we headed off to Yarraville to the Sun Theatre, to see Persepolis, an animated film, mainly because of the timing of the showing.
I knew virtually nothing of the story, other than it was the story of a young girl in revolutionary and war torn Iran, and the horror of the story told was not diminished in any way by the fact that it was animated. Instead the starkness of the black and white drawings, the humanity of the characterisation shocked me into tears for the terrible waste of lives.
And, then, the realisation that even in what we think of these enlightened times, people can do terrible things to their own compatriots, while we live our lives in ingnorance.
If you get a chance to see it, go...the time is definitely worth it.
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