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katura

2008 Movie Wrap-Up!

Jan 05, 2009 22:40

Favourite movies I watched for the first time in 2008 (in no particular order):

No Country For Old Men
Once
Year of the Dog
Death Proof
Lars and the Real Girl
Mongol
Burn After Reading
The Savages
There Will Be Blood
Persepolis

Movies you should watch just to talk about:

Teeth
The Happening
Bug
Fido
Zombie Honeymoon

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katura January 5 2009, 11:44:58 UTC

Nope, I haven't.

alagbon January 5 2009, 20:30:52 UTC

I'm glad to hear Persepolis was good; have you read the graphic novel?

I had no idea that it wasn't until the 1980s that the Iranian people became so oppressed.

In all fairness, the Shah's government was hardly a paragon of human rights (the CIA/Mossad-trained SAVAK was one of the more brutal intelligence services out there;) it's believed by many Iranians that if the Shah hadn't been so hard on leftist reformers the pendulum wouldn't have swung so far the other way. On the other hand, in the Shah's time women and religious minorities were definitely better off by several orders of magnitude.

katura January 6 2009, 05:46:41 UTC

I have been meaning to check out the graphic novel, but have not yet.

It's a personal memoir, so obviously it's only going to depict a narrow part of life in Iran, but most aspects of the author/narrator's life were worsened post-Shah. But it doesn't mean they were all singing their praises, either.