As “Persepolis” turns 20, Marjane Satrapi is still fighting censorship, from the right and the left: “The fanaticism of the liberal is not much better than the other fanaticism.”
, Satrapi relates the events that led up to the current situation better than I can , telling the story of how the revolution affected one family through the eyes of a girl who grew up under the regime before self-exiling to Europe.
“If you don’t want to listen to something, you just don’t listen to it. If you don’t like a book, you don’t buy it. If you don’t like a film, you don’t need to go watch it. But you cannot ban it. The only thing that is to be bannedA feminist revolution that is happening [in Iran] under the eye of everyone, and the Left, the liberals everywhere, they are so scared of this fucking Islamophobia that they do nothing.
“Trump went so much in the direction of being nasty and openly racist and openly homophobic that as a reaction people become too much on the other side, and this is not good either. You have to have a sense of criticism. You cannot just say,. You’re harming us! The people that suffer from these [fundamentalists], they’re not Americans, it’s us [Iranians]. By banning you’re not making freedom, you’re actually fucking it up.
“I remember many years ago I worked on this commission of French cinema where we decided who to give money to, and there was this woman who wanted to make a documentary about the Aboriginals in Australia. And they were like,and all this and that. And it came to me that this was a positive racist documentary, because the person she’s describing is a koala. An animal. A human being is complex. A human being is cynical. A human being is violent.
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