grow up like you

Nadia 2022-03-23 09:02:00

I don't know when, I gradually thought that I had become a person who would not cry while watching a movie. But just an hour ago, "I grew up in Iran" nonchalantly overturned this conclusion - I gradually become a person who no longer draws conclusions about myself, because there is always something new to come. The only meaning of the so-called conclusion may be to wait to be overturned by these new things.
Tears can flow from the windows of the soul, from the depths of the eyes, probably because the heart is really touched by instinct. In a sense, the hometown also has such an instinct for everyone - we have no right to choose our hometown, we don't have the right to choose where to grow up, and the hometown becomes a natural part of ourselves like our own flesh and blood.
But no matter where you grow up, I think everyone is the same: you will inevitably encounter a life like Marjane, going to a foreign land, falling out of love, sleeping on the street, giving up on yourself, getting divorced, being true to yourself, and pursuing freedom. Fortunately, Marjane always has a grandmother who puts jasmine in her bra, and tells Marjane to be true to herself and to be free in her life. Fortunately, this movie came to my life tonight and let me know warmly: When I used to go to a foreign land to give up myself like Marjane, a movie like this was waiting for me here and told me like a grandmother who put jasmine in her bra: be true to yourself and be free.

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Persepolis quotes

  • Marjane as a teenager: Promise you won't ask me any questions.

  • Marjane's grandmother: [watering flowers] Ha. Serves them right. Why you practically snipped off their little thingies. Will you please take off that god-awful veil? It makes me claustrophobic.

    Marjane as a teenager: [takes off her veil] I'm so used to it, I forget I'm wearing it.